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Fooling with Words:

A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
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HarperCollins, Dec 26, 2000 - Poetry - 256 pages
A Celebration of Poets and Their CraftColeman Barks
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Mark Doty
Deborah Garrison
Jane Hirshfield
Stanley Kunitz
Kurtis Lamkin
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Paul Muldoon
Marge Piercy
Robert Pinsky
  

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Review: Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft

User Review  - Melissa Jeanette - Goodreads

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading more poetry but doesn't know where to begin. Not only did Moyers choose successful and talented poets, but his own prose, in ... Read full review

Review: Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft

User Review  - Susan - Goodreads

The question and answer format works beautifully. I would love to read ten volumes of this! What poets say about poetry in general is super interesting. There are just enough poems included to give it all context. Read full review

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Contents

Stanley Kunitz i
11
Lorna Dee Cervantes
31
Mark Doty
46
Deborah Garrison
69
Shirley Geoklin Lim 152
131
The Poets
220
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Bill Moyers's career as a television journalist has earned him more than thirty Emmy Awards. His reporting and interviews have been the basis for seven bestsellers. He is author of Genesis (Doubleday), The Language of Life (Main Street Books), and Healing and the Mind (Doubleday). He lives in New Jersey with his wife and creative collaborator, Judith Davidson Moyers.

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