- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: PAN Macmillan Adult (Oct 2 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0330461311
- ISBN-13: 978-0330461313
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 558 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,311,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
There’s something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 B.C, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the moon itself:
I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed,
I saw him coming on the southern road.
My heart lays down its load.
In collecting together poems such as these – poems that span continents and centuries – To The Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are – like space itself – infinite.
About the Author
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she studied philosophy. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan Award and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture.
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Poetry on Kindle?, Feb 8 2011
By General reader - Published on Amazon.com
This is the first book of poetry I tried in the Kindle format. Not successful. Even adjusting the font sizes for different poems, the layout is uncertain (lines that run over at the right go flush left). For modern poems, you don't know if what you are seeing is what was intended or not. You can't skip and page, unless you search by a remembered special word. For poems longer than one page, you have to click forward to know who the poet is. So I started reading them from the end.
Duffy has, by the way, collected here poems by different poets in which the moon appears, for English translations from ancient Greek, up to the present, including some ancient Asians, Ted Hughes, a Silvia Plath, one by herself, some lovely Dylan Thomas ... But it's not the kind of collection that one marches through. So this trial tells me something about what a book of poetry is, too.
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