A dream of summer
Subtitle: poems for a sensuous season
By: selected by Robert Atwan ; introduction by Mary Oliver.
Contributors: Atwan, Robert.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Summer -- Poetry.; American poetry.; English poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "A Dream of Summer assembles thirty-seven poems evocative of the experience and joy of summertime. Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, this volume focuses on the sensuality of summertime and the varieties of summer experience. It is a love letter to the sultry heat, crashing thunderstorms, endless days, and short nights. Gathered here is work by illustrious poets of the past - among them William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, John Keats, and Alfred Lord Tennyson - as well as more contemporary artists like Louise Gluck, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marge Piercy, and Charles Simic."--BOOK JACKET.