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Introduction 1
Helen 3
The Story of the Creation Poet 18
Song of Songs: Love Is Strong as Death 25
May Swenson's Art of Wonder 40
Eliot's "Marina": The Poet and the Designer 53
Marianne Moore: The Mind and the World 60
First Loves 64
The Persistence of Tradition 68
Letter to a Young Poet 76
Octavio Paz: Man of Two Worlds 79
Paul Celan: Poet of Silence 97
Song of Our Cells 100
Marianne Moore: A Way of Seeing 111
Sylvia Plath and Yaddo 117
Orient Expressed: From Lu Chi to Imagism 129
Stephen Sondheim, Dramatic Poet 134
Léonie Adams 140
War Requiem 145
An Uncommon Friend 151
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Sonya Dancy
reviewed First Loves and Other Adventures on October 19, 2010
First Loves and Other Adventures
A list of, what the author, Stephen Weiner, feels are the 101 best graphic novels ever. There are many I agreed with, but also several I took issue with.
Some greats are left out ( Persepolis, Barefoot Gen, etc.), and some choices I don't understand at all ( Simpsons Comic a Go-Go??). Pogo and Calvin & Hobbes are great, but I've never seen them defined as graphic novels.
What really wrecks the book for me is, actually, just one tiny thing. In the description of Maus he describes book 1 as being about life in Jewish concentration camps, book 2 being about building a life in America after the war. That is just totally wrong - book 1 is about life before the Holocaust, book 2 is about life in the concentration camp, with segments of both book dealing with life in America after the war. I don't want to slam a guy for one mistake, but, I must! MausThe Complete Maus is one of the most renowned graphic novels ever, a favorite of myself and many other readers, and the blurb Stephen Weiner gives suggests that he, at best, skimmed it. Baffling and extremely disappointing.
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First Loves and Other Adventures, Grace Schulman's acclaimed poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. In her new prose collection, she explores the passion for reading and other disciplines that led her to exult in her craft.
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First Loves and Other Adventures, Grace Schulman's acclaimed poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. In her new prose collection, she explores the passion for reading and other disciplines that led her to exult in her craft.
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