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Little Poems

Michael Hennessy

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English
Everyman Hardcovers
01 September 2023
From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel ... So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies - go on, dip again.

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Imprint:   Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 167mm,  Width: 115mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   231g
ISBN:   9781841598284
ISBN 10:   1841598283
Series:   Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael Hennessy (External Editor) EDITOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Hennessy loves poetry, studies poetry, teaches poetry, reviews poetry. He lives in Chicago.

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