John Ciardi
Author
Language
English
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Description
Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise -- the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
Now, for the first time, John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three...
Author
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
From Twenty Books of Verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment; poems of the natural world that reveal humanity's kinship to spiders and nebulae, oceans and thickets; and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
Ciardi declared in the Saturday Review that "(e)very good poet writes one poem more than his index shows and that is the total poem...
11) In fact
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature."
16) You know who
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of twenty-seven humorous poems for children." --