Description
A unique anthology of poemsfrom around the world and through the agesthat celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world.
Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbler bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks and appear frequently in Europe from the Elizabethan period onward. The brilliant poets collected here range far and wide in time and place, including Tu Fu, John Donne, Kobayashi Issa, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Xi Chuan, and Kevin Young. Bees, butterflies, and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybugs and glowwormsthe miniature beings that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.
Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Author: Kimiko Hahn
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: 04/06/2021
Series: Everymans Library Pocket Poets
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 6.30h x 4.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781101908266
Language: English
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