The Great Cat by Emily Fragos
This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat. The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats's Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake's tyger and Rilke's panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss. The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.
EMILY FRAGOS, winner of the 2015 Witter Bynner Prize, is the author of Hostage: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow 2011). She has been the guest poetry editor for Guernica, received the David Craig Austin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim, and is an American Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Award winner. She appears in the film The Fortune Writer and teaches poetry at New York University and Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400043347 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400043344 |
| Title | The Great Cat |
| Author | Emily Fragos |
| Series | Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2005-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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