An Invitation to Poetry

This books is a collective of 200 poems chosen by American readers, with a video introduction by Robert Pinsky. This book offers an introduction into the art of poetry. It has many examples of the various ways a to write poems. The videos on the accompanying DVD feature 27 of the acclaimed Favorite Poem Project documentaries as seen on PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Poems by Sappho, Keats, Rilke, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as other contemporary poets.

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