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Poetry Market
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2007 Poet's Market
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Poet's Market 2007 (Poet's Market)

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More than 1800 Markets for Poets to Send Their Work

*Includes 1800 updated markets for beginning and experienced poets
*Shares 150 new markets for 2007
*Provides technique and market-related instruction for poets submitting their work

An indispensable guide and the most complete resource available in the unique niche of poetry publishing, 2007 Poet's Market provides hundreds of listings as well as how-to articles on the art and craft of poetry. With new profiles on the Furious Flower Poetry Center, John Amen, and the founders of Rune, this edition provides 100% updated market listings and essential advice for poets of all skill levels."

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Poetry Market.......2007-05-19

This is the best purchase for all writers of poetry and prose. It's extremely helpful with the necessary guidelines for you to submit your poetry. It is a must for all writers of poetry. It contains the most up to date information for this market, and you will find that there are a lot of markets to submit your poetry.Woman Reclining

Essential..............2007-05-13

I've been writing poetry for 5 years now and I was completely in the dark of how to go about getting my work out there.I've been to many poetry slams around LA and spoken to different poets and have sought out the best way of getting my poems out there and to the right audience.After going to several poetry slams ,I got tired of it very quickly and I also got tired of hearing the kind of poetry that was read at slams. So I sought out a guide that would help me go about sending my poems to a specific audience of readers. This book was very helpful , seeing that it broke down the specifics of what kind of poetry publishers were looking for and HOW to contact them and so on. Pretty much this is a MUST for anybody trying to get there work out there , consider it your new best friend next to your dictionary , if you are a poet of course.

A great Resource.......2007-04-10

This is the second version of the Poet's Market that I have bought and I highly recommend it. Not only is it a great source of possible publications for an aspiring poet, but it has a lot of very helpful, informative advice in it. It guides you through the whole process of submitting work. It helped me get my first poem published. Hopefully I'll have more published with the help of this version.

2007 Poet's Market.......2007-04-07

Very informative and well organized. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in having their poetry published.

An Invaluable Resource.......2007-03-31

Poet's Market 2007 was referred to me by a publishing profressor of mine and I have found it to be one of the best resources for me.

I used to (and will always continue to) discover magazines by searching endlessly on-line through blogs, webpages, links, etc., but Poet's Market provides an extremely comprehensive resource for easy searching and valuable information. The editor statements provided with some of the entries in the journal provide valuable insight/advice about what to submit to their journals, and the indexes in the back of the collection allow for easy searching.

In addition to the wonderful organization of the volume, the editor's attention to customer satisfaction is top-notch. After finding a listing that was no longer accepting submissions I posted a blog establishing my findings. Nancy Breen, the volume's editor, was quick to respond with an explanation as well as evidence that she read my blog! I was astounded by the custmoer service and will continue to be a loyal Poet's Market connoisseur because of it.

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Just don't get it - slight spoiler
Entertaining read, but discount the ending
Devilishly Clever, Suspenseful Mystery
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The Poet
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Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career. His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield. Jack is going to write the story. The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it looks like Sean's death was the work of a serial killer. Jack's research turns up similar cases in cities across the country, and within days, he's sucked into an intense FBI investigation of an Internet pedophile who may also be a cop killer nicknamed the Poet. It's only a matter of time before the Poet kills again, and as Jack and the FBI team struggle to stay ahead of him, the killer moves in, dangerously close.

In a break from his Harry Bosch novels--including The Concrete Blonde and The Last Coyote--Edgar-winning novelist Michael Connelly creates a new hero who is a lot greener but no less believable. The Poet will keep readers holding their breath until the very end: the characters are multilayered, the plot compelling, and the denouement a true surprise. Connelly fans will not be disappointed. --Mara Friedman

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In the tradition of Thomas Harris and Patricia Cornwell, this bone-chilling tale from Edgar-Award winner Michael Connelly is a masterful psychological thriller in which a journalist uncovers the trail of a serial killer with an unlikely choice of victims - homicide detectives.

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Just don't get it - slight spoiler.......2007-06-27

This book requires you to buy into two basic premises: 1. that the FBI would allow a nobody newspaper reporter to be embedded into a major investigation (not!) and 2. a supposedly very ambitious female FBI agent would carry on an affair with the nobody newspaper reporter right under the noses of her boss and colleagues, during an active investigation (yeah right!). And the ending...don't even get me started. I was totally lost as to why the killers did what they did. Did the killers know each other? Were they in cahoots? Who knows? A reader shouldn't be so confused after slogging through 500 pages.

Entertaining read, but discount the ending.......2007-06-25

Why do writers have so much trouble with endings? I read the Andromeda Strain by Crichton last week, and this book a few days before this review. The plot starts out well and kept me engrossed right up to the final 50 pages, at which point the needless plot twists stole some of the enjoyment. Recommended, despite a lousy finish.

Devilishly Clever, Suspenseful Mystery.......2007-06-14

While I am a fairly ardent fan of the mystery genre, it must be said that the overall quality of most of them is somewhat lacking, and finding a good one requires wading through the mediocre titles to find an author worth sticking with. If "The Poet" is any indication, Michael Connelly is one of those authors. It centers on Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter whose twin brother (a police officer) dies in an apparent suicide after investigating a brutal case that he couldn't solve. But when McEvoy looks closer, unable to believe that his brother would do anything like that, the details of the case don't look so open and shut, and suddenly he finds himself working with the FBI to track down a killer that has been preying on cops and making it look like suicides - leaving a quote from Edgar Allen Poe behind as the `suicide note'. McEvoy makes for an intriguing protagonist - torn between his anger/grief over his brother's death and his career as a reporter, because his brother's murder ends up being the perfect story, and McEvoy's involvement with the FBI investigation gives him the perfect in to write the definitive article about it all. As a crime reporter, McEvoy has lost an essential part of his humanity in pursuit of big bylines and big stories at all costs, and now he finds himself having a crisis about that. "As a police reporter I was a tourist of the macabre. I moved from murder to murder, horror to horror without blinking an eye. Supposedly. As I walked back in the lobby toward the bank of elevators I thought about what this said about me. Maybe something was wrong with me."

Two of the blurbs inside the front cover compare "The Poet" with Thomas Harris' early masterpieces Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector) (quite accurately omitting any mention of Harris' later, inferior and commercial-driven Lecter novels), and the comparison, particularly to "Red Dragon," is apt. Connelly has great skill with suspense and with crafting a memorable villain whose diabolical crimes earn a place in your memory on those nights you find yourself home alone. And he takes his time letting the story mature naturally, allowing suspense to slowly take hold of the reader in a genre that increasingly seeks to grab your attention with a splashy opening, move the plot along at a rapid clip, and then peter out in the end as if from exhaustion. Connelly is too smart for that. He takes his time instead; it is 77 pages before the suicide really begins to look like a homicide, about 200 pages until the killer gets his titular nickname, and almost 300 pages before the requisite message from the killer arrives at FBI headquarters. And not a moment of it is boring. (As an aside, "The Poet" was published in 1996, and it is amusing to see how the `advanced' technology that defines the case's particulars has become hopelessly outdated in a mere eleven years. The first chapter of the sequel, published more recently and excerpted in the back of the book, seems to come from another planet with its mention of cell phones and GPS systems)

There are flaws in "The Poet," but thankfully they are minor compared to Connelly's brilliant touches. Least of it are the numerous errors in grammar and spelling that occasionally pop up, since those are really the editor's fault and not Connelly's. But Connelly does rely a little too heavily on mystery clichés, such as the bombshell FBI agent whose inexplicably instant sexual tension with McEvoy adds a dose of sex to the story. Connelly also goes out of his way to keep McEvoy at the center of the action, and when this includes a somewhat ridiculous contrivance to put him in the middle of a hostage crisis that he had no business getting involved in, it almost goes over the top (almost). Then there's the ending, that final twist that traditionally upends the mystery novel for one last surprise to leave the reader with. Connelly's is a surprise, yes, but almost too much of one because he seems to be at a loss to explain it, and therefore doesn't even try. No wonder there's a sequel, entitled The Narrows (Harry Bosch) - Connelly left himself with a lot of explaining to do.

That said, "The Poet" is head and shoulders above most mysteries, and Connelly proves to be a fiendishly clever writer.
Grade: B

EXCELENT TO-CATCH-A-SERIAL-KILLER NOVEL.......2007-05-19

I remember reading this book in 12 hours. Straight. I just could not put it down. Made the mistake of starting it in the afternoon. It was daylight when I finished.

People (and back-covers) often claim the terms "page-turner" and "will not be able to put it down" and then we have to plow through verbalistic word-stuffing for weeks, succumbing to sleep after only a few pages.

THE POET is tight, precise, imaginative, smart and very well researched.

It defined Michael Connelly and, justifiably, made his career.

You will enjoy it too.

First Stab at Connelly... Wow.......2007-05-06

In my estimation, one of the finer moments for a bibliofile comes at the discovery of a great new author. This is especially true with the discovery that there are many other books in the author's catalogue. This happened for me with The Poet, by Michael Connelly. I had previously noted Connelley's Bosch series, but never gave it a go. I was struck by the synopsis of the story of the Poet, and gave it a go. I was not disappointed. This fine novel - which features a Denver crime reporter by the name of Jack McEvoy - is a complex and enjoyable, incredibly well-written mystery/thriller.

This is not a light read by any stretch of the imagination. McEvoy's twin brother - a homicide detective - is found dead in his car from an apparently self-inflicted gun shot. There is an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield. McEvoy sets out to prove that the death was not a suicide and the mystery begins. McEvoy's investigation leads him to a partnership with the FBI, and we are introduced to many characters including profiler Rachel Walling. Soon the team is investigating a serial killer dubbed "the Poet."

This is a thrilling, well-written 4-star book, by an excellent author. I did not give this book 5 stars as the book was excellent, but the ending left me feeling a little empty.

Note: I did read (and previously reviewed) The Lincoln Lawyer shortly after I read this book. That book was excellent too, and proves to showcase the varied talents of the author.

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It is destiny.
Beautiful, Humble, and Sincere
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Encouragement and Commitment for a Writer's Life

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.

Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

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Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.

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It is destiny........2007-04-06

In this collection of letters to the aspiring poet, we are exposed to Rainer Maria Rilke at his rawest level. He shows us why he writes, how he writes, and what inspires him to write. Rilke's prose style is wonderfully complex: one is reminded of his poetry in his word choice and tone.

Rainer Maria Rilke was perhaps the greatest poet of the 20th century. These letters are certainly something that everyone should read - people will learn more about themselves as they learn more about Rilke

Beautiful, Humble, and Sincere.......2007-02-17

Letters to a Young Poet is a short read that you can run your eyes and your soul over again and again! But just because it is a short read does not mean it has to be a quick read. Rilke's words were so rich and full that I had to read his letters slowly. I found I enjoyed savoring his beautifully sculpted words even though part of me wished to devour them.

Mr. Kappus, a young poet struggling with life in military school, discovers that he is enrolled in the same military school that Rilke used to attend. Therefore, he decides to seek Rilke's advice and opinions in his poetic endeavors through written correspondence. This book is a compilation of ten letters Rilke sends in response to Mr. Kappus's letters. After the letters themselves, the book builds background context to the letters by informing the reader about Rilke's life and state of mind during the time these letters were written.

I found this book inspiring and saddening at the same time. It isn't really the advice Rilke offers that I value and enjoy so much. My love for this collection of letters stems from the incredible word pictures that Rilke paints in my head and his touchingly sincere style of writing. For example he paints a visual of patience with, "Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer." His words stir something in the heart.

He writes with such intensity and depth that you can see each lesson taught and each thought that is shared has been earned at a high cost to the writer. He speaks to the young poet on solitude and patience for which he has himself been battling to achieve. As I read, I began to feel that maybe he is actually advising and encouraging himself as much as Mr. Kappus through writing these letters.

At first I didn't really find the ending section of the book on the life of Rilke very interesting. In fact, it bored me until I got to the background of about Rilke's sixth letter which contained more of Rilke's own words from correspondence he had with other people. But when I went back and read the letters again, I saw even more depth and emotion in them revealed by the context built in that ending biographical section.

This is one of those books I'd keep handy for repeated reading. The reason I rated the book a 4 instead of 5 is because I don't know if this book is for everyone. I really enjoyed it, and I truly believe most will. But I could see some that will read it and just not find the beauty in it. If you love the magnitude of words, this book is for you. Drink it deeply and enjoy!

Excellent - A Classic.......2007-01-08

Timeless wisdom. A classic must read for everyone. I finally picked up a copy after having read many inspiring quotes from the book. Well worth it!

A Classic.......2007-01-08

It was an act of impulse that prompted Franz Xaver Kappus, a young and obscure poet, to send a letter to the great Rainer Maria Rilke. Franz was inspired to write the letter because he shared a common teacher with Rilke; presumably he included some of his poems in the letter to Rilke and asked for his opinion of them. This correspondence, which started in 1903, would continue for five more years.

"Letters to a Young Poet" collects ten of Rilke's letters (the letters from Franz to Rilke are omitted). The content of the letters are varied; it includes Rilke offering insights into the creative process, the difficulties and joys of writing, problems in aesthetics, solitude, memory and more. All of the letters are passionate and extremely evocative. Reading the letters one gets the sense that Rilke was a person who thought and felt deeply. For him, solitude (not ordinary, but bordering on monastic solitude) was a pre-requisite for artistic creation and self-discovery, a rite of passage through which great truths might be discovered: "The necessary thing is after all but this: solitude, great inner solitude. Going-into-oneself and for hours meeting no one--this one must be able to attain."

As for Franz Xaver Kappus, as he himself says in the preface, "life drove me off into those very regions from which the poet's warm, tender and touching concern had sought to keep me." However, the letters remain as treasures to other readers. Stephen Mitchell's is probably the best of the English translations. The edition translated by M.D. Herter Norton is also a good one, all the more so because an appendix relates the (complicated) personal context within which Rilke wrote the letters.

Encouragement and Commitment for a Writer's Life.......2006-10-05

Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Joan M. Burnham)

Published: New World Library.
Number of Pages: 95, plus additional 18 pages of text, including Forward, Introduction,
About the Author, About the Translator, and Recommended Reading Lists
Year Published: 2000
Price: $15.00
Widely available at large and niche book stores and on-line (ISBN - 1-57731-155-8)

Ideal Audience: The most profound impact of this lovely little book will be on serious writers who want wise counsel, reassurance, and encouragement to pursue the writing life. That having been said, there is enough substantive content that, properly presented, the book could be a useful tool for creative writing teachers at the accelerated high school level or above.

Brief Summary: Rilke was a Czechoslovakian poet of some note in his lifetime (1875-1926) who in his late twenties and early thirties exchanged letters with a younger poet, the now nearly-unknown Franz Xaver Kappus, who sent Rilke some of his work for comment. The book contains 10 of Rilke's letters, edited and translated from the original German, from that correspondence. Dated over a period of five years, the letters evolve from providing general advice on literary devices (such as the use of irony), to opinions on topics related to writing, including the value of others' criticisms, to philosophizing on the virtues of solitary work, the uses of adversity, and the impact of building a life around one's art. As one would expect from a poet, Rilke's observations are intensely personal, heartfelt, and beautifully written (subject to the caveat of their having been read only in translation).

Because he specifically declined to critique Kappus' submissions to him, Rilke is not a source for substantive lessons on techniques, especially those thought of as pertaining primarily to the novel, such as plot arc, character development, etc. He speaks most eloquently and timelessly on a writer's need to incorporate experiences, a child's perspective, and, especially, aloneness into the creative process.

Although the format of Letters to a Young Poet was driven by actuality rather than as a clever construct, the book stands as an effective example of the opportunities of the form and could certainly be taught that way, particularly to younger writers exploring various creative writing devices in either fiction or non-fiction. There are also passages of great lyrical beauty that could be used in a classroom or workshop as examples of description or metaphor.

Sample Excerpts: The following passage is typical of Rilke's commitment to encouraging a young writer's confidence and reliance on his own judgment as opposed to external critiques:

When considering analysis, discussion, or presentation, listen to your inner self and to your feelings every time. Should you be mistaken, after all, the natural growth of your inner life will guide you slowly and in good time to other conclusions. Allow your judgments their own quiet, undisturbed development, which, as with all progress, must come from deep within and can in no way be forced or hastened. (p. 25-26)

Rilke's skill as a poet is evident in his evocative descriptions and phraseology, as in the following written from Rome:

Unending streams of lively water flow over the old aqueducts in the large city. They dance in the city squares over white stone bowls and spread themselves out in wide roomy basins. They rustle by day and raise their voice to the night. Night here is grand, expansive, soft from the winds, and full of stars. . . . And staircases are here, steps conceived by Michelangelo, steps that were modeled after downward gliding waters, broad in their descent, one step giving birth to another, as wave from wave. (p. 46-47)

As philosopher, Rilke can be inspiring:

We can be sure of very little, but the need to court struggle is a surety that will not leave us. It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. (p. 62-63)

Primary Strength: I was deeply affected by Rilke's reassurances that a writer's life can be - even needs to be - difficult. He wisely advises making peace with the isolation and loneliness that seem to be endemic with writers, and his tone of encouragement and deep affection for those who chose an artistic life does not waver.

Primary Weakness: Some readers may find Rilke's philosophy obvious and dated. Certainly a writer or teacher of writing seeking how-to guidance or exercises to strengthen specific techniques will not find them here.

Urgency Rating: As a classic of its type and for the sincere reassurances it offers, this book should be on the nightstand of every struggling writer. Teachers who care about how their students live as writers (as opposed to just producing decent writing) would do well to READ THIS PROMPTLY and consider incorporating in their attitudes and interactions its spirit of encouragement and commitment.

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Keep a copy on my nightstand.
The great American poets
Good, but shows its age
Good Work, but dated.

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

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Keep a copy on my nightstand........2006-10-11

Other reviewers have noted that this an aging book. It's a fair criticism, but this is still a great collection of some of the best works of some of the most important American poets. It's nice and small and relatively cheap. I keep a copy of it on my nightstand and read from it almost daily.

The great American poets .......2004-12-24

This work contains samples of many outstanding American poets and also of the great American poets. In my own feeling the great American poets are few in number. Whitman, Dickinson , Wallace Stevens , Eliot ( if he is an American) and on the borderline Poe Frost and Cummings. This anthology which contains works only up until the early sixties does not thus include today's most well- known active poets. But in my feeling( and it is only that ) these poets do not come to the level of their great predecessors. And here I think Emerson's judgment is correct and the one poet who most embodies the spirit of America at least in its most expansive phase is Whitman.
This anthology though contains the work of many very good poets , and thus any real reader of it will certainly have a true idea and feeling of what American poetry is about.

Good, but shows its age.......2002-09-06

"The Mentor Book of Major American Poets," edited by Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig, brings together generous selections from the work of 20 writers: Edward Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, E.E. Cummings, Hart Crane, and W.H. Auden. These authors span the 17th to 20th centuries (the youngest was born in 1907). Many styles, forms, and themes are contained within this rich anthology.

That having been said, I must note that the book has a copyright date of 1962, and it really shows its age. It's hard to imagine someone compiling an anthology of major american poets (to 1962) today and making the omissions that Williams and Honig did: Anne Bradstreet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others.

Despite its deficiencies, this is a wonderful collection that contains a wealth of memorable pieces. A few of my favorites: Taylor's rapturous "Stupendous Love!"; Emerson's "The Snowstorm," which celebrates the "frolic architecture of the snow"; Poe's masterwork "The Raven"; Whitman's ecstatic, all-embracing "Song of Myself"; a marvelous selection of Dickinson's quirky genius; Robinson's tragic "Richard Cory"; S. Crane's haunting short poems; Lindsay's lush, musical (and very politically incorrect!) "The Congo"; Cummings' amazing sonnet beginning "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm"; and much more.

I recommend this book for anyone interested in American poetry, but caution that, because of its dated nature, it needs to be supplemented.

Good Work, but dated........2001-08-22

This would have been an excellent survey of American poets thirty years ago. But now it's a little bit dated. First, it does not contain any American poets since then. Second, it seems to have been written before the revolution in recent decades which brought some previously ignored poets of high caliber, but not white male enough to fame. For instance, Langston Hughes is clearly one of America's major poets, who had been around for decades before this book was published, but it includes nothing about him. The work that is included is clearly excellent, but there are plenty of better anthologies available now.

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Medieval vision of the afterlife
Another Classic Masterfully Translated
A masterful blend of poetry and theological innovation
The Comedy Continues...

Purgatorio (Bantam Classics)
Dante Alighieri
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This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

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Medieval vision of the afterlife.......2007-05-01

This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history.
"The Divine Comedy" describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman epic poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love and another of his works, "La Vita Nuova." While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and scholarship to understand. Purgatorio, the most lyrical and human of the three, also has the most poets in it; Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic passages in which Dante tries to describe what he confesses he is unable to convey (e.g., when Dante looks into the face of God: "all'alta fantasia qui mancò possa" - "at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe," Paradiso, XXXIII, 142).

Dante wrote the Comedy in his regional dialect. By creating a poem of epic structure and philosophic purpose, he established that the Italian language was suitable for the highest sort of expression, and simultaneously established the Tuscan dialect as the standard for Italian. In French, Italian is nicknamed la langue de Dante. Publishing in the vernacular language marked Dante as one of the first (among others such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio) to break from standards of publishing in only Latin or Greek (the languages of Church and antiquity). This break allowed more literature to be published for a wider audience - setting the stage for greater levels of literacy in the future.

Readers often cannot understand how such a serious work may be called a "comedy". In Dante's time, all serious scholarly works were written in Latin (a tradition that would persist for several hundred years more, until the waning years of the Enlightenment) and works written in any other language were assumed to be comedic in nature. Furthermore, the word "comedy," in the classical sense, refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events not only tended towards a happy or "amusing" ending, but an ending influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. By this meaning of the word, the progression of Dante's pilgrim from Hell to Paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim's moral confusion and ends with the vision of God.

The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical). The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes and nines. The poem is often lauded for its particularly human qualities: Dante's skillful delineation of the characters he encounters in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; his bitter denunciations of Florentine and Italian politics; and his powerful poetic imagination. Dante's use of real characters, according to Dorothy Sayers in her introduction to her translation of "L'Inferno", allows Dante the freedom of not having to involve the reader in description, and allows him to "[make] room in his poem for the discussion of a great many subjects of the utmost importance, thus widening its range and increasing its variety."

Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" added later in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy"). Low poems had happy endings and were of everyday or vulgar subjects, while High poems were for more serious matters. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of man, in the low and vulgar Italian language and not the Latin language as one might expect for such a serious topic.

Purgatorio
Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem). The Mountain is on an island, the only land in the Southern Hemisphere. At the shores of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil are attracted by a musical performance by Casella, but are reprimanded by Cato, a pagan who has been placed by God as the general guardian of the approach to the mountain. The text gives no indication whether or not Cato's soul is destined for heaven: his symbolic significance has been much debated. (Cantos I and II).

Dante starts the ascent on Mount Purgatory. On the lower slopes (designated as "ante-Purgatory" by commentators) Dante meets first a group of excommunicates, detained for a period thirty times as long as their period of contumacy. Ascending higher, he encounters those too lazy to repent until shortly before death, and those who suffered violent deaths (often due to leading extremely sinful lives). These souls will be admitted to Purgatory thanks to their genuine repentance, but must wait outside for an amount of time equal to their lives on earth (Cantos III through VI). Finally, Dante is shown a beautiful valley where he sees the lately-deceased monarchs of the great nations of Europe, and a number of other persons whose devotion to public and private duties hampered their faith (Cantos VII and VIII). From this valley Dante is carried (while asleep) up to the gates of Purgatory proper (Canto IX).

The gate of Purgatory is guarded by an angel who uses the point of his sword to draw the letter "P" (signifying peccatum, sin) seven times on Dante's forehead, abjuring him to "wash you those wounds within". The angel uses two keys, gold and silver, to open the gate and warns Dante not to look back, lest he should find himself outside the gate again, symbolizing Dante having to overcome and rise above the hell that he has just left and thusly leaving his sinning ways behind him. From there, Virgil guides the pilgrim Dante through the seven terraces of Purgatory. These correspond to the seven deadly sins, each terrace purging a particular sin in an appropriate manner. Those in purgatory can leave their circle whenever they like, but essentially there is an honors system where no one leaves until they have corrected the nature within themselves that caused them to commit that sin. Souls can only move upwards and never backwards, since the intent of Purgatory is for souls to ascend towards God in Heaven, and can ascend only during daylight hours, since the light of God is the only true guidance.

Recommended reading for anyone interested in literature and medieval history.

Another Classic Masterfully Translated.......2005-06-28

The second of three books that compose the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri's "Purgatorio" is a continuation of his epic Cantos. Having seen Satan with their own eyes, Dante and Virgil once again breathe fresh air as they surface through an opening in a cliff. Their adventure then carries them to the mountain island of Purgatory where Dante hears tales of woe and sees some familiar faces, all the while drawing nearer to his beloved Beatrice.

Often overlooked as the middle story, Purgatorio is, in its own rights, a classic. It would be my recommendation, however, to read it in order so as not to confuse yourself and to miss out on any of the important events that occur.

What makes this edition so special is the wonderful translation done by Allen Mandelbaum. The notes that are provided make understanding not only the language but the plot and its nuances much easier and consequently much more enjoyable. This is easily the best version on the market today for the casual reader.

A masterful blend of poetry and theological innovation.......2004-10-19

Dante's PURGATORY often fails to receive the appreciation accorded INFERNO or even PARADISE. The reasons are easy to see. Unlike the fascinating tour of hell, the denizens of Mount Purgatory lack the tragic dimensions of those found in the nether regions. Yes, they are suffering, but overall their situation is one for them to be happy about, since they clearly are marked for eventually reaching paradise. Their scenario contains infinitely more good news than bad news. Also, there are few passages in this work that can compare with such highpoints in INFERNO as the tales of Francesca or Ulysses.

Nonetheless, this is probably the most original of the three parts of Dante's COMEDY, and the one that has exerted the most actual theological influence. For that reason alone is essential reading. Nor is the work without considerable literary merit. The fact is that it is only dull in comparison with the extraordinary masterpiece that preceded it. Though sedate compared to its predecessor, the book contains a host of fascinating and brilliant details.

The historical importance of this work can scarcely be overestimated. Ideas about purgatory had been developing slowly over the millennium preceding the 12th century, and when Dante was writing PURGATORY in the early 14th century, there was surprisingly little consensus about the nature of purgatory. After Dante, however, there would be a widespread consensus on the details concerning purgatory. In this way, Dante exerted as much influence on the conception of purgatory as any of the theologians. Surely this is one of the few instances in church history where a creative artist bears the primary credit for theological dogma (I should add Catholic dogma, since protestants have never believed in the existence of purgatory). For instance, before Dante there was debate about where purgatory was located. In this world? In a section of hell? As an antechamber of paradise? Dante states that it is a place on earth, in the southern hemisphere, at the precise opposite of Jerusalem. What was the physical constitution of purgatory? Dante depicts it as an extraordinarily high peak (in fact, the highest mountain on earth) on an island, consisting of an ante-purgatory at the base, seven levels or terraces (hence the title of Thomas Merton's remarkable autobiography, THE SEVEN STORY MOUNTAIN), with an earthly paradise at the summit. Theologians had debated how long souls would reside in purgatory, many holding that they would remain until the final judgment. Dante depicts a process of limited duration, possibly extending to the final judgment, but far more likely ending before then. Before Dante, most conceived purgation taking place by fire, but Dante describes a variety of punishments depending on the type of sin, with fire reserved exclusively for the sin of lust. Many had debated whether purgation would take place with the assistance of demons or angels, but Dante clearly depicts benevolent angels aiding souls in their purification. Similarly, many wondered if purgatory could be better conceived as more closely akin to hell or paradise, but Dante unquestionably links it more closely with the latter, in that once one is in purgatory, one is on the path to paradise. Most importantly, prior theologians had conceived purgatory as a place where minor, unimportant sins were purged, and definitely not the major sins. But Dante conceives of purgatory as a place where only the mortal sins are purged, the seven levels dealing with pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust in succession. Minor sins don't even show up on his moral radar. Before Dante, purgatory is a vaguely conceived place, but after this work it is vividly imagined.

As in his translation of INFERNO, Mandelbaum provides a beautiful and highly readable translation of Dante. We are lucky to have many superb translations of Dante in English, but this is clearly among the very best, and in fact might be for many readers the translation of choice. Certainly it has few if any rivals for both accuracy and beauty. One can obtain it either in this trade paperback edition or in a beautiful one-volume edition published by Everyman, containing all three parts of the COMEDY, though without the Italian text.

The Comedy Continues..........2000-12-20

For those who are unaware, Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy. After reading the Inferno, this book continues Dante's journey. Similar to the Inferno, Dante is accompanied by his guide, the great poet, Virgil. Also similar to the inferno, the two have to travel through different levels of this part of the afterlife and once again encounter the ironic tourtures faces by sinners. This book also comes with a map which can help a reader follow the path folled by the two men. Very helpful. It would be a good idea to first read The Inferno, in order to fully understand what is happening. Overall, the book is very deep, but fortunately this version comes with a terrific collection of notes which can be used to better understand the passages written in foriegn languages, and also helps us to understand the many characters discovered in this journey. A must for almost any reader. I hope this was helpful, but if it wasn't, I appologize for the time you wasted reading it. Purgatorio won't be such a waste. Enjoy.

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Dante for bigots?
Dante's Inferno by Mandelbaum
Great Poetry
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Inferno

Inferno (Bantam Classics)
Dante Alighieri
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ASIN: 0553213393
Release Date: 1982-01-01

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In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.

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Dante for bigots?.......2007-04-06

Esolen is neither a Dante scholar nor an Italian language/literature specialist. He is an English Teacher at Providence College, a Catholic institution. His retelling of the Divine Comedy is reasonably accurate and quite readable. The problem comes with his notes. They range from the scandalously inadequate to the downright offensive. Esolen has written a number of anti-gay articles for religious publications . This is reflected in his notes where he refers to homosexuality as something like "that most heinous of sins". This is not only offensive in a contemporary publication, but is totally out of tune with Dante himself, who took a much more sympathetic and nuanced approach c.1300 AD. The skimpy notes manage to include other personal and inappropriate remarks.

There are many superior translations out there. Mandelbaum's is excellent and has very good notes. Robert and Jean Hollander's is also very fine and the notation is the most extensive and scholarly of all.

Dante's Inferno by Mandelbaum.......2007-01-10

This english rendition of Dante's Inferno is puts thoughtful use of the english language into the translation of this classic work. The fact that Mandelbaum translates using more literal meanings may be hard to follow at times but overall it enhances the effect of the book's moral dilemma.

Great Poetry.......2006-12-27

Dante has become one of my favorite poets. He's up there with Homer and that's kind of funny since in Limbo he is excepted in the circle of some of the greatest poets which included Homer.

This is a nice translation and the commentary is excellent. John points out certain things in the verses which you would have to have some familiarity or go and look up elsewhere to understand its significance to the poem.

In this volume Dante speaks about the nature of sin (the specific punishments helps to amplify it meaning). It also shows how the straight path (to God) is not an easy one to simply step back onto if you happen to slip because these sins (shown in hell) will be a stumbling block and hold you back (represented by the 3 creatures he meets before he has to take the hard journey through hell).

There are some memorable moments in the bowels of hell which I will not forget and Virgil (reason) is a great guide.

A "Regular People" Review.......2006-12-06

As a regular person, I would suggest reading Dante with the help of some sort of commentary, maybe cliff notes or something like that. The summary at the beggining of the canto is good but to fully understand it, the cliff notes are great, so enjoy...and keep me updated!

Inferno.......2006-11-16

This translation has an easier read compared to other translations. If you are a student that has to read this book for a class, I would suggest this version.

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An Approachable Robert Frost Collection
Excellent Introduction
Man & Nature- The Epic
Frost's poems commonly featured by an image of " dark"

Robert Frost's Poems
Robert Frost
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BELOVED POEMS BY AMERICA'S FAVORITE POET A proven bestseller time and time again, ROBERT FROST'S POEMS contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy." An essential addition to every home library, ROBERT FROST'S POEMS is a celebration of the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his wonderful understanding of the human condition. These classic verses touch our hearts and leave behind a lasting impression.* Over 100 poems * All Frost's best known verses from throughout his life

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An Approachable Robert Frost Collection.......2005-12-01

I had not read much of Frost since I saw him give a reading at Dartmouth College in the last year of his life. This September, I went back to New Hampshire for the first time in 39 years, visiting my old campus -- and Robert Frost's farm near Franconia Notch. In my bag was Louis Untermeyer's delightful selection of Frost poems, interspersed by his lucid, but unobtrusive commentary.

Frost is a poet who has a very distinctive "voice" in his works. It takes a bit of ferreting out to see how it changes from one poem to another, sometimes substantially, from wry and folksy all the way to devastatingly ironic. To help us with the process, Untermeyer groups several like poems together between blocks of commentary. Each group acted as a separate unit to assist in breaking the text into readable chunks.

Especially with a book of poetry, that is no mean feat. It helped that Untermeyer knew Frost as well as any man alive. The selection is superb, including my favorites: "After Apple-Picking," "The Sound of the Trees," "The Death of the Hired Man," and "Mending Wall."

For the price, there is no better collection. It is Untermeyer's special gift to make it more fun to read.

Excellent Introduction.......2005-08-27

I would like to make an additional comment in reference to the two previous reviewers. While I certainly agree with their evaluation of Frost's ability and scope, many who hear or read "man and nature" might not make the connection Frost so often made in his works, letters, and life. Frost was constantly drawing the line of demarcation: between our dream relationship with nature and our actually lack thereof. But moreover, the tenuous relationship between science (mankind's reasoning mind) and the greater world (nature's passion and drives).

Frost not only looked at what we gained from "progress," but also what we lost. After all, what is progress? It certainly depends on your view...

Man & Nature- The Epic.......2003-03-06

Frost always set man in an interesting light to nature. This collection catches the flow of his thoughts clearly. It's a fine collection with a lot to offer. People who are not used to Frost will like this. It will serve as a great introduction to the man. I still have a special place in my heart for 'The Gift Outright'. A good deep read. Educational.

Frost's poems commonly featured by an image of " dark".......2000-02-03

Most of his poems tells his appreciation an experience dealing with nature, for instance, if we observe one of his poem antitled 'stopping by woods on a snowy evening' which basically tends to reveal the nature relation especialy the relation of nature with man itself and in the significance nature will tell what are man's duty living in this world.

Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Christina Rossetti
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An exquisite and sensuous work.......2000-07-17

The lead Amazon review, I think, is very much off the mark. Rossetti's works include passionate, idealized references to men, so it is doubtful she was a lesbian. Therefore Goblin Market was likely an outlet for the strong sexuality of a strong woman bound by the conventions of Victorian society. It has been speculated that Goblin Market, as a poetic work of Pre-Raphaelite fantasy fiction, was written with the expectation that its sexual symbolism would be recognized by readers. I disagree, and believe many Victorians took it as a cautionary allegory warning girls against the wiles of the "coarser gender". Until some literary scholar of the period or of Rossetti steps forward with definitive social or biographical information, I believe Victorian mothers may have read this work to young daughters, both blind to the innuendos and imagery. That said, whether Goblin Market's nuances were meant to be patent or subliminal, it stands as a classic of its literary type, and is an exquisite, sensuous and passionate poetical work.

Precious and Important........2000-05-04

Whether you happen to know the how's and why's of Christana Rossetti's life and time, her poetry, and especially Goblin Market, is truely amazing. Of course knowing her circumstanses only makes the joy and fascination even bigger for a comtemporary reader. The courage and the cost for a woman to be able to write what she wrote can only be imagined. She is the original Girl Power if ever there was such a thing and Goblin Market a legacy of its time.

for lovers of poetry.......1999-12-24

I think Goblin Market was a wonderful book for whatever type of life you happen to live. Each and every poem can be interpereted in so many different ways to pertain to your own life. The poems were not meant to be taken literally word for word, and the religious aspects of the book do not necessarily need to be interpereted just as they are written. It is a book of poems written by a strong woman that was not afraid to show her feelings. I recommend it to anyone that enjoys poetry and has an open and thoughtful mind.

Goblin Market is Superb..........1998-12-12

...however, a lot of the other works contained in this short compilation are a bit too feminine for my tastes. Also, unfortunately, a lot of the Judeo-Christian religious references do not exactly "float my boat." Goblin Market, though, is an exquisite epic to be enjoyed by all.

Fifty Years of American Poetry: Over 200 Important Works by America's Modern Masters

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Fifty Years of American Poetry: Over 200 Important Works by America's Modern Masters
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Fifty Years of American Poetry gives readers the opportunity to hear familiar voices and new ones--and encounter the great American poems that have captured both our minds and our hearts.

The Academy of American Poets has as its stated purpose ''To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of American poetry..." This was never limited to poets of any particular school, method, or category of poetry so this anthology is as representative a cross-section of American poetry in the last 50 years as any of its kind. The Academy is not a stodgy eastem provincial institution. It encourages young poets, recognizes the importance of change and growth in the poetry of America, and believes that poetry is not for poets only. This anthology was compiled on this basis. Fifty Years Of American Poetry is not only educational, but also inspirational, hopefully imbuing everyone who reads it with a sense of the dynamic and development of American poetry in the last half century. The Academy of American Poets is the only institution which could compile such a unique anthology because it is the oniy group which has consistently played a large part in the American poetry scene through its patronage to poets and its mission to make poetry an accessible and vital part of the American literary landscape. -->

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