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Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry,Used
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One of the bestread men in the Western world is how Poetry Review describes Irish poetcritic Dennis ODriscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetryrelated, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out of ODriscolls column Pickings and Choosings for Poetry Ireland Review, and contains nearly two thousand smart sayings obsessively gleaned from six hundred sourcesincluding powerhouse critics, prizewinning poets, world leaders, and newspaper headlines. The voices in this volume are by turns provocative, deadpan, humorous, and inspirational:If you dribble past five defenders, it isnt called sheer prose.Tom LeonardI do not give the honorific name of poetry to the primitive and the unaccomplished.Helen Vendler, The New York TimesI started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetrywhich I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.Michael Donaghy, VerseOrganized by headings as forthright as What Is It Anyway? as playful as Prose and Cons and No, Thanks (on bad poetry), this collection is both a reference work and a supremely entertaining take on the poetry world. Quote Poet Unquote offers incontrovertible evidencethousands of pieces of itthat poetry, and the passionate discourse it generates, is alive and kicking.Dennis ODriscoll, former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of essays. He lives in Ireland.
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