Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life

"The tone may vary from one essay to another, but more than anything else, these are love stories, not rose-colored romances, but love that includes doubt, violence, wrestling with angels, and devils."--From the Introduction

CONTRIBUTORS:
Eavan Boland
Madeline DeFrees
Stephen Dunn
Reginald Gibbons
Edward Hirsch
Maxine Kumin
J.D. McClatchy
Carl Phillips
Stanley Plumly
Mary Ruefle
Adam Zagajewski
and many others

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889330914
• ISBN13: 9781889330914
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Help! Please explain this title to me!

This is a wonderful book...I can't say enough about it, and much has already been said that's said better than I could say it...so this is what I have to say: HELP! Please explain the title to me in such a way that I can actually understand it. Otherwise, I'm stuck in an "Emperor's New Clothes" dilemma....either pretend I understand it, or ask what it means "in plain English." Stanley Plumly uses the reference on page 107, and then Mary Ruefle does so on page 56, first paragraph....maybe I'm just a simple non-English major who can't distinguish a metaphor from a simile, but I need help.