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How does a poem mean? / John Ciardi.
LIBRA - Rare PS586 .C53 Lee copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ciardi, John, 1916-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- English poetry.
- Poetics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Baron, Herschel (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Hoeber, Ditta Baron (donor) (RBC copy)
- Baron, Herschel (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Lee, Ruth Sara (donor) (Lee Collection copy)
- Lee, Charles, 1911- (inscription) (Lee Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 663-1028 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin ; Cambridge : Riverside Press, 1960.
- Contents:
- How does a poem mean?
- A burble through the tugley wood
- By rippling pools
- The words of poetry
- The sympathetic contract
- The image and the poem
- The poem in motion
- The poem in countermotion.
- Notes:
- "Originally published ... as one section of a collaborative volume entitled Introduction to literature. The reader will observe that the pagination of the original printing has been retained."
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has dust-jacket retained.
- RBC copy is inscribed to Herschel Baron and signed by the author 2 times Nov. 21, 1982.
- Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy has inscription: Christmas '75. For my poetic friend Charles J. R. (actually '79! Ch---)"
- Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy is paper bound.
- OCLC:
- 270198
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