Dear Editor
Subtitle: A History of Poetry in Letters
Contributors: Billy Collins (Foreword, Editor); Joseph Parisi (Editor); Stephen Young (Editor, Introduction)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780393050929
First sentence: In 1911, when she had the improbable idea of founding, in industrial Chicago, a magazine devoted exclusively to verse, Harriet Monroe was a failed playwright, obscure poet, struggling freelance writer, and almost fifty-one years old.