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<p>The entire world is reborn in spring. Starting in March, when the snow still drips from the branches of trees, and exploding into June, when a palpable vitality ignites the air, spring reminds us perhaps more than any other season that life is cyclical. In spring "trees leap up alive," "buds relax and spread," and the world, according to e. e. cummings, is "puddle-wonderful." Flowers, cherry blossoms, city sparrows -- and, of course, new love -- all play a role in this enticing season of renewal. The Language of Spring brings together forty poems that celebrate the season in all its guises: ecstatic, contemplative, deceptive, seductive, poignant. Delicately illustrated throughout by famed mid-twentieth-century woodcutter Fritz Kredel, this volume ranges from the classic tributes of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to such contemporary visions as Jane Kenyon's "Spring Changes" and Yusef Komunyakaa's "April's Anarchy." In poems of uncompromising beauty, wit, and imagination, all the contributor's behold this enigmatic season through the lens of rebirth and renewal. Philip Larkin shrewdly notices the trick that budding trees play on us by looking new

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Author

Atwan, Robert

Publisher

Boston: Beacon Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807068601

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Anthology

Rating

3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14