Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read AloudEdited by Robert Pinsky
W.W. Norton, 2009. Nonfiction. 508 pgs.
Essential Pleasures presents poetry perfect for reading aloud and includes a CD of selected poems from the anthology. A wide range of time periods are included and the poems are notable for their accessibility to readers who may be less familiar with poetry. Offerings from authors like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Billy Collins, and Amy Lowell will be a pleasant surprise for students who may have stumbled over more abstruse poets in school.
Readers who enjoy Essential Pleasures should also pick up the three Favorite Poem Project anthologies, also edited by Robert Pinsky. (Poems to Read is my favorite.)
MBC
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