Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
"Poet-reporter" for National Public Radio'sAll Things Considered, Bowman has been ushering poets and their work onto the airwaves since 1995, seeking to present "a wide range of voices showing how varied the imagination can be, how complex and full of possibility." In her thoughtful and enlightening introduction, Bowman notes that the poetry segments have been "extraordinarily popular," inspiring a stream of letters and e-mails from listeners all around the world, and since she has an infallible ear and excellent taste, these inspired selections also make for a fresh and enjoyable poetry anthology. Bowman's poets find much to praise, laugh about, lament, and, most essentially, be ardently attentive to, even mystically receptive. This embracing collection begins and ends with two journeys, Quincy Troupe's Pacific coast "Flight" and Elizabeth Spires' Atlantic-anchored "On the Island," and in between are Nobel laureates Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, womanly wise poets Lucille Clifton and C. D. Wright, bluesy Kevin Young, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lucia Perillo, Marilyn Chin, and many more, each concisely profiled, each a voice to savor.Donna SeamanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved