An Introduction to Poetry by X J Kennedy

An Introduction to Poetry by X J Kennedy

Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 12e continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.  This bestselling anthology includes more than 500 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic works and contemporary selections.  Both noted poets themselves, the text's editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with wit and a contagious enthusiasm.  Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the poets.  This edition features more than 50 new poems, a new masterwork casebook on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock," extensively revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a fresh new design.

The poems of X.J. Kennedy were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written five more collections and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina(Greensboro), California(Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Dana Gioia has published three collections of poetry including Daily Horoscope (1986); The Gods of Winter (1991); and Interrogations at Noon (2001) He has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.

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ISBN 13	9780321470348
ISBN 10	0321470346
Title	An Introduction to Poetry
Author	X J Kennedy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2007-01-15
Number of pages	784
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