A Dream of Summer: Poems for a Sensuous Season
Book: A Dream of Summer: Poems for a Sensuous Season , by Robert Atwan (Editor), Mary Oliver, ISBN10: 0807068721, ISBN13: 9780807068724, Beacon, June 2004, Hardcover
ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.
A Dream of Summer collects some forty evocative poems by English-language writers on the experience and joy of summertime. Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings of all things summer, this volume focuses on the sensuality of summertime and the varieties of summer experience. It is a love letter to the sultry heat, crashing thunderstorms, endless days, and short, mild nights. Gathered here is work by illustrious poets of the past, among them William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Campion, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as more contemporary artists like Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Charles Simic. Renowned poet Mary Oliver—the most important American poet writing today on the individual’s experience of the natural world—contributes an introduction, musing on this most enchanted and favored of seasons.
Other contributors include Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharan Strange, Galway Kinnell, May Sarton, Yvor Winters, John Ashbury, Louise Bogan, Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Robert Hayden, Derek Walcott, Marge Piercy, and many more.
Robert Atwan is founding editor of the Best American Essays series. His previous poetry anthologies include Chapters into Verse, Divine Inspiration, A Mind of Winter: Poems for a Snowy Season, The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal, and The Heart of Autumn: Poems for the Season of Reflection.
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