Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them

A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: â€œThe Holdens remind us that you donâ€™t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verseâ€¦.Itâ€™s plain funâ€ (The Wall Street Journal).

Grown men arenâ€™t supposed to cryâ€¦Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred menâ€”distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rightsâ€”confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to breaking down, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves.

Their selections include classics by visionaries, such as Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as modern works by masters, including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, with more than a dozen by women, including Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. All are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Popeâ€™s famous phrase, â€œwhat oft was thought, but neâ€™er so well expressâ€™d.â€

From J.J. Abrams to John le CarrÃ©, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth to the late Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world. â€œEveryone who reads this collection will be roused: disturbed by the pain, exalted in the zest for joy given by poetsâ€ (Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature).

Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Simon Schuster
EAN	9781476712789
Edition	Reprint
Feature	Simon Schuster
ISBN	1476712786
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2015-04-28
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2015-04-28
Studio	Simon & Schuster

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them

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