The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me: 100 Classic Poems with Commentary

by Brendan Kennelly

The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me is the ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the burden of poetry or art, what weighs us down and makes us do what we don't really want to do as well as what pulls us back to our selves, the animal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852244402
• ISBN13: 9781852244408
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"