THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS. by Orr, David,…

THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS. by Orr, David, introduction. < >

THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

McSweeney's, (2007). First edition - A book which brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains - "ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation. Thus D. C. Berman leads to Charles Simic by way of James Tate, and other chains run through Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, Michael Ondaatje, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, C. K. Wright, Dean Young, Yusef Komunyakaa, and dozens more." Includes contributions from Brenda Hillman, Harryette Mullen, Kay Ryan, Jane Hirschfeld, Forrest Hamer and others. Introduction by David Orr. Notes on contributors. x, 211 pp. ISBN: 978-1932416817.

Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 88088
Keywords: Poetry Anthology
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