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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Contributors

By Geoffrey O’Brien

By Billy Collins

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$13.99

Price

$17.99 CAD

Format

ebook

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ebook $13.99 $17.99 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around September 3, 2007. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Bartlett’s Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance — from birth to death and everything in between.

Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O’Brien, Bartlett’s Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say?

On Sale
Sep 3, 2007
Page Count
544 pages
ISBN-13
9780316029025

Geoffrey O’Brien

About the Author

Geoffrey O’Brien is the editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and author of fifteen books, most recently The Fall of the House of Walworth, and other works including Hardboiled America, Dream Time, The Phantom Empire, The Times Square Story, The Browser’s Ecstasy, Castaways of the Image Planet, and Sonata for Jukebox. He has contributed frequently to The New York Review of Books, Artforum, Film Comment, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

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