Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476712786 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent collection; would make a great gift" according to Kelly. You don’t have to say it: I am fully aware that I am not a man. Also, I’m an embarrassingly easy crier and will shed a tear at the drop of a hat. (I’ve recently taken to speed-reading through sad scenes in books because otherwise I’d have to tag far too many reviews with. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry--Truth in Advertising? I am a grown man. I do not like to cry. I received this book as a gift.Product works as advertised.. Emmanuel France said Five Stars. My sister and brother-in-law absolutely loved this gift, Thanks
With his father Anthony, Ben edited the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry.. He lives in London and studied English at Merton College, Oxford. He is also the author of three autobiographical books about poker, as well as translations of opera and ancient Greek plays and poetry.Ben Holden is a writer and film producer. Anthony Holden is an award-winning journalist and bi
All are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope’s famous phrase, “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”From J.J. “Everyone who reads this collection will be roused: disturbed by the pain, exalted in the zest for joy given by poets” (Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature).. Abrams to John le Carré, 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. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth
From Booklist Amnesty International, sponsor of this anthology of poems chosen by men prominent in various fields, explains its involvement by noting that prisoners of conscience are often poets. Unusually, he says that his selection, Brecht’s “The Burning of the Books,” makes him cry with laughter—“Don’t ask me why.” The other contributors report soberer tears, internal as well as overt, in reaction to the poems they selected, works that powerfully protest death or poignantly acknowledge it; that embrace despair or, with surprise, discover hope; that mourn personal loss or feel the pangs of the constant, general losses that make up all existence; that stand