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Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them
Edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Scribner, 272 pages, $22
Carmela Ciuraru made a simple request of her favorite poets: that they write about the poems that first inspired them. The result is an astonishing collection of works, reintroduced by poets whose recollections of them are so rich that one can’t wait to rediscover the poems–from Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” offered by Sherman Alexie, to Emily Dickinson’s poem No. 449 (“I died for beauty. . .”), from Elizabeth Spires.
