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Solitude

A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations recorded in the stillness of the night. Poets can be said to be the custodians of the interior life, and from Sappho`s โ€Tonight I`ve watchedโ€ to Emily Dickinson`s โ€I`m Nobody! Who are you?โ€ and from Yeats`s communion with `the deep heart`s core` in โ€The Lake Isle of Innisfreeโ€ to Bei Dao`s veneration of โ€Ordinary Daysโ€, some of the most indelible poems from every time and culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet`s art. And for readers who either seek or escape from solitude,all of the poets in this anthology – from Sappho and Callimachus to Mark Strand and Richard Wilbur – offer words to console and inspire. They remind us that in cultivating solitude we explore the limits of our imaginations and realize our mostprofound feelings and needs.

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