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Books
New
Arrivals on Poetry
 The
Moments, the Minutes, the Hours
Jill
Scott
St. Martin's Press; April 2005
ISBN: 031232961X
Writing
poems and keeping journal since 1991, Jill Scott now shares
her personal poetry collection in The Moments, the Minutes,
the Hours. Praised for her earthy, honestly erotic, soulful
and very real lyrics, Jill Scott explores all the flavors
of life, love, and self. Of her music, Jill offers: "It's
music. It's experiences. It's vulnerability. It's honesty.
It's being a woman--an African American woman. Being a daughter,
a sister, a grandchild and a Godmother. It's life. It's deeper
than what I know. It's bigger than what I can see. I guess
it's a dive into the human spirit." And the same will
come forth in this never- before-seen collection of her poetry.
 Ariel
Sylvia Plath
HarperCollins Publishers; November 2004
ISBN: 0060732598
This
facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection
and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at
the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages
of Sylvia Plath's manuscript, this edition also includes in
facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem, "Ariel,"
in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as
well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the
manuscript's poems. In her foreword to this volume, Frieda
Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, explains the reasons for
the differences between the previously published edition of
Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mother's
original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia
Plath's legacy and vision will be reevaluated in the light
of her original working draft.
 The
Best Poems of the English Language
Harold Bloom
HarperCollins Publishers; March 2004
ISBN: 0060540419
The
Best Poems of the English Language is a comprehensive anthology
that offers the reader possession of six centuries of great
British and American poetry. The vast scope of this anthology
begins with Chaucer and ends with poets whose births predate
1900. Harold Bloom has culled his selection according to his
three absolute criteria: aesthetic splendor, intellectual
power, and wisdom. Featured in this volume is a substantial
and significant introductory essay called "The Art of
Reading Poetry." This essay presents Bloom's critical
reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading,
teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves
best, and conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should
be interpreted and appreciated. Throughout this anthology,
Bloom includes extensive introductions to each poet and to
many of the individual poems. In such commentaries, Bloom
guides the reader through what is most relevant for a true
understanding of the more than one hundred poets selected.
Compiled
by: Sanyat Sattar
Source:
ETC, Gulshan 1, Dhaka. sanyatsattar@gmail.com
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