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Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem
Touchstones American Poets on a Favorite Poem Author:Robert Pack (Editor), Jay Parini (Editor) Contemporary poets offer incisive, illuminating, and idiosyncratic essays on their favorite poems. —
Introduction / Robert Pack and Jay Parini
on "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop / Julia Alvarez
on "Space being... Curved" by e. e. cummings / David Baker
on "Wulf and Eadwacer" by Anonymous... more », Anglo-Saxon / John Balaban
on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser / Ann Barker
on "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed / Marvin Bell
on "Silence" by Marianne Moore / Rosellen Brown
on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer / Teresa D. Cader
on "Astrophil and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney / Michael Collier
on "Painting" by Langston Hughes / William C. Cook
on "Caelica" by Fulke Greville / Steven Cramer
on "Mithridates" by Ralph Waldo Emerson / Thomas M. Disch
on "Mr. Flood's Party" by Edwin Arlington Robinson / Stephen Dunn
on "Frau Baumann, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartz" by Theodore Roethke / John Engels
on "The Wife of Usher's Well" by Anonymous / Donald Finkel
on "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson / Carol Frost