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Poems for Life
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Hardcover, 107 pages; 2011 (1995)
$14.95
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Both Geraldine Ferraro and Diane Sawyer name Rudyard Kipling's "If " as their favorite poem. Angela Lansbury likes "Cuttin' Rushes" by Irish poet Moira O'Neill, Yo-Yo Ma chooses Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and David Mamet offers up his own poem, "The Dog," "because I could remember it." Poems for Life began in the nineties as a project for the fifth grade class of a New York elementary school: Students wrote to politicians, actors, authors, and other well-known luminaries asking "What is your favorite poem?" The responses of fifty celebrities-- including both a letter explaining the choice and the poem itself--are printed in this inspiring anthology, the royalties of which were donated to the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. A beautiful affirmation of the lasting power of poetry, Poems for Life offers both a wonderfully diverse sampling of poetry and fascinating insight into the contributors to the project.
(AG)
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