Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets
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Book Overview
Finalist for the SIBA Book Award
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1588381315
ISBN13:9781588381316
Release Date:May 2003
Publisher:NewSouth Books
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.67 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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Not only a good book, a great teacher's resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This anthology of poems is not just a good topical anthology, but as a teacher I have used it on many occasions to teach poetry. So much of 20th century has questionable themes or language where one word can disqualify a poem from being taught in a junior high or high school classroom. The poems in this book are well written, by recognizable poets - e.g. Wendell Berry - and are topically suitable and chronologically relevant for the classroom.
Best poetry anthology since Billy Collins' Poetry 180!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book arrived on my desk just as the depression (over having finished Billy Collin's wonderful anthology, Poetry 180)set in. This was the perfect antidote. The editor has included some of my favorite contemporaries (Naomi Shihab Nye!) as well as a host of classic Southern poets (Wendell Berry, Robert Penn Warren, etc.). I devoured it in two nights. If there were six stars, I'd give this one all six.
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