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Poems for Life : Celebrities on the Poems They Love by The Nightingale-Bamford School is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Poems for Life : Celebrities on the Poems They Love about?

<p class=null1>A special collection of poetry as selected by Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Wolfe.</p><p>What is your favorite poem? That is the question students from two fifth-grade classes at a New York grade school asked famous people to whom they had written. Their idea, the students explained, was to put together a book that would benefit the Womenâs Commission for Refugee Women and Children. The students were also studying poems in class and wanted to know if anybody still, in fact, read and gained insight from poetry. Touched by this appeal to their hearts, minds, and memories, fifty celebrities responded to their inquiries, including Geraldine Ferraro, Allen Ginsberg, Rudi Giuliani, Peter Jennings, Angela Lansbury, Yo-Yo Ma, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Sawyer, Ally Sheedy, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Wolfe. The poems they offer range from John Donne to Langston Hughes, but their letters all express hope that the students-and readers of this wonderful gift book-will read and take inspiration from the poetry of past and present.</p><p>'Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling,' writes Anna Quindlen in her introdu

Author

The Nightingale-Bamford School

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611453508

Subjects

Short Stories, Nature, Poetry