{"product_id":"books-and-libraries-isbn-9780593320198","title":"Books and Libraries","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology that testifies to the passion books and libraries have inspired through the ages and around the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks have long captured the love, imagination, even the veneration, of readers everywhere. Emily Dickinson envisions these precious objects as “Frigates” that “take us Lands away”; Alberto Rios calls them “the deli offerings of civilization itself.” This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: the libraries and bookshops where one can best hear “a choir of authors murmuring inside their books,” as Billy Collins has it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets collected here range from the writer of Ecclesiastes in the third century BCE through such pillars of world literature as Catullus, Horace, T’ao Ch’ien, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Pierre de Ronsard, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Wordsworth; more recent luminaries include Jorge Luis Borges, C. P. Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Wallace Stevens, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Maya Angelou, and Derek Walcott.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, \u003ci\u003eBooks and Libraries \u003c\/i\u003eis sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003cb\u003eThe Love of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wallace Stevens, “The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm”\u003cbr\u003e Dylan Thomas, from “Notes on the Art of Poetry”\u003cbr\u003e Theodore Beza, “Hayle to My Bookes”\u003cbr\u003e Robert William Service, “Book Lover”\u003cbr\u003e William Wordsworth, “Wings Have We”\u003cbr\u003e Emily Dickinson, “There is No Frigate Like a Book”\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXIII”\u003cbr\u003e George Crabbe, from “The Library”\u003cbr\u003e Tsitsi Jaji, “Unaccompanied Minor”\u003cbr\u003e Maya Angelou, “I Love the Look of Words”\u003cbr\u003e Latin Proverb, “Words Fly Away”\u003cbr\u003e Tessa Ransford, “In Convents and Crypts”\u003cbr\u003e Henry Vaughan, “To His Books”\u003cbr\u003e John Donne, “A Valediction of the Book”\u003cbr\u003e Pablo Neruda, “Ode to the Book, II)”\u003cbr\u003e Lynn Powell, “Sword Drill”\u003cbr\u003e Tony Harrison, “Book Ends”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAll Sorts of Readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “There Are Only Four Kinds of Readers”\u003cbr\u003e Louis MacNeice, “The British Museum Reading Room”\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Kuusisto, “Night Seasons”\u003cbr\u003e Coventry Patmore “The Revelation”\u003cbr\u003e Hilaire René Belloc, “On His Books”\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, “A Description of a College Room”\u003cbr\u003e Pierre de Ronsard, “To His Valet”\u003cbr\u003e T’ao Ch’ien, “Reading the Book of Hills and Seas”\u003cbr\u003e Muddupalani, “How to Read a Book”\u003cbr\u003e Paul Valéry, “The Angel Handed Me a Book”\u003cbr\u003e Czeslaw Milosz, “Father in the Library”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTurning the Page \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Billy Collins, “Books”\u003cbr\u003e David S. Herrstrom, “Sacred Books”\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Dunn, “The Book and I”\u003cbr\u003e Charles Bukowski, “They Arrived in Time”\u003cbr\u003e Dante, from Inferno\u003cbr\u003e Gjertrud Schnackenberg, “Supernatural Love”\u003cbr\u003e John Burnside, “September Evening: Deer at Big Basin”\u003cbr\u003e Yi Sha, “Sunday”\u003cbr\u003e Flavio Santi, “Dear Mary”\u003cbr\u003e Juan Manuel Roca, “The Library of the Blind”\u003cbr\u003e Mona Van Duyn, “In Bed with a Book”\u003cbr\u003e Iku Takenaka, “My Books\u003cbr\u003e Mel Pryor, “In a Secondhand Bookshop”\u003cbr\u003e Agi Mishol, “Poetry Reading”\u003cbr\u003e C.P. Cavafy, “Very Rarely”\u003cbr\u003e Derek Walcott, “This Page is a Cloud”\u003cbr\u003e Jean Sprackland, “The Girl Who Ate Books”\u003cbr\u003e John Glenday, “For My Wife, Reading in Bed”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiscovering Reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joyce Sutphen, “Things You Didn’t Put on Your Résumé”\u003cbr\u003e Julia Alvarez, “Waiting for My Father to Pick Me Up at the Library\u003cbr\u003e Laurie L. Patton, “On Learning a Sacred Language in Childhood”\u003cbr\u003e Lewis Carroll, “What is the Use of a Book?”\u003cbr\u003e Patricia Hooper, “The World Book\u003cbr\u003e Margarita Engle, “Tula [“Books are door-shaped”]”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCelebrating Individual Books and Authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Marvell, “On Mr. Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’”\u003cbr\u003e John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer\u003cbr\u003e W. H. Auden, “Auden on Montaigne”\u003cbr\u003e Ivor Gurney, “George Chapman – The Illiad”\u003cbr\u003e R. S. Thomas, “Henry James”\u003cbr\u003e Jorge Luis Borges, “On Acquiring an Encyclopedia”\u003cbr\u003e Ezra Pound, “Cantico del Sole”\u003cbr\u003e Andrew D. Scrimgeour, “Winter Pages”\u003cbr\u003e Siegfried Sassoon, “To an Eighteenth Century Poet”\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Brodsky, from “Elegy for John Donne”\u003cbr\u003e Giovanni Boccaccio, “Boccaccio Sends Petrarch a Copy of Dante”\u003cbr\u003e Anne Stevenson, “Re-reading Jane”\u003cbr\u003e Wendy Cope, “My Father’s Shakespeare”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBecause of Libraries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alberto Rios, “Don’t Go into the Library”\u003cbr\u003e J. K. Rowling, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u003cbr\u003e William E. Gladstone, “Books Are a Delightful Society”\u003cbr\u003e Liz Lochhead, “Random”\u003cbr\u003e Yuriy Andrukhovych, “Library”\u003cbr\u003e Kostas Koutsourelis, “Library”\u003cbr\u003e Laurynas Katkus, “On the Sixth Floor”\u003cbr\u003e Jill Osier, “Elegy”\u003cbr\u003e Robert L. Chapman, “Library”\u003cbr\u003e Rosemary Griebel, “Library”\u003cbr\u003e Naomi Shihab Nye, “Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things\"\u003cbr\u003e Alasdair Paterson, “On the Library”\u003cbr\u003e William Cowper, from “An Ode Addressed”\u003cbr\u003e Walt Whitman, “Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries”\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Buechner, “Holy a Place”\u003cbr\u003e Gerald Stern, “Stepping Out of Poetry”\u003cbr\u003e Lesbia Harford, “Closing Time: Public Library”\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Cowley, “Mr. Cowley’s Book Presenting It Selfe”\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Cavendish, “Fame’s Library within the Temple”\u003cbr\u003e John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Library”\u003cbr\u003e Gillian Clarke, “In a Cardiff Arcade”\u003cbr\u003e U. A. Fanthorpe, “In the English Faculty Library, Oxford”\u003cbr\u003e James Russell Lowell, “Literature for Desolate Islands”\u003cbr\u003e Ian McMillan, “Adult Fiction”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlways the Librarians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Mills, “If Librarians Were Honest”\u003cbr\u003e Andy Jackson, “Enquiry Desk”\u003cbr\u003e Rita Dove, “Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967”\u003cbr\u003e William Mcllvanney, “In the Library”\u003cbr\u003e Nikki Giovanni, “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long”\u003cbr\u003e Sean O’Brien, “The Beautiful Librarians”\u003cbr\u003e John Holland, “On the Death of Esther Caterer”\u003cbr\u003e Philip Metres, “Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker’s Stroke”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Writing of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wislawa Szymborska, “The Joy of Writing”\u003cbr\u003e Durs Grünbein, “On Learning Old Vocabulary”\u003cbr\u003e Amit Majmudar, “Vocative”\u003cbr\u003e Alicia Ostriker, from Ars Poetica\u003cbr\u003e Gabriela Mistral, “The Teller of Tales”\u003cbr\u003e Alexander Pope, “Sound and Sense”\u003cbr\u003e Philippe Jaccottet, from “Songs from Below”\u003cbr\u003e Ilya Kaminksky, “Author’s Prayer”\u003cbr\u003e William Blake, from Songs of Innocence\u003cbr\u003e Les Murray, “The Privacy of Typewriters”\u003cbr\u003e Li Sen, “Confronting Nujiang”\u003cbr\u003e William Stafford, “A Writer’s Fountain Pen Talking”\u003cbr\u003e Odia Ofeimun, “I Am a Writer,”\u003cbr\u003e Petrarch, from Canzoniere 1, “O You Who Hear”\u003cbr\u003e Gaius Valerius Catullus, “To Whom Shall I Offer this Book?”\u003cbr\u003e William Butler Yeats, “Where My Words Go”\u003cbr\u003e Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”\u003cbr\u003e Marcus Valerius Martialis, “Epigrams 1,3, “My Little Book”\u003cbr\u003e Horace, Ode 3.30, “More Lasting than Bronze”\u003cbr\u003e Guido Cavalcanti, “Sonnet XVIII”\u003cbr\u003e Uejima Onitsura, Untitled haiku\u003cbr\u003e Johann W. Goethe, “Authors”\u003cbr\u003e Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet and His Songs”\u003cbr\u003e Callimachus, “The Very First Time”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarginalia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John F. M. Doraston, “The Bookworm”\u003cbr\u003e Robert Burns, “The Book-Worms”\u003cbr\u003e Evenus, “Page-eater”\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh\u003cbr\u003e Ben Jonson, “To My Book-seller”\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Hornsby Ferril, “Bookmarks”\u003cbr\u003e Tarannum Riyaz, “The Scent of Old Books”\u003cbr\u003e Robert Herrick, “Make Haste Away”\u003cbr\u003e Udava R. Tennakoon, “Books Up on Books”\u003cbr\u003e Decimus Ausonius, “You’ve Bought Books”\u003cbr\u003e Eugene Field, “The Bibliomaniac’s Prayer”\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Lang, “Ballade of the Book-man’s Paradise”\u003cbr\u003e Adilia Lopes, “I Don’t Like Books”\u003cbr\u003e Lope de Vega, “So Many Books”\u003cbr\u003e Ecclesiastes 12:11-12, “The Sayings of the Wise”\u003cbr\u003e Philip Larkin, “A Study of Reading Habits”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRethinking Books and Libraries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Frank Osen, “Bookshop Shopping”\u003cbr\u003e Douglas Dunn, “December’s Door”\u003cbr\u003e Joe Lucia, “The Afterlife of Libraries”\u003cbr\u003e Bertolt Brecht, “The Book Burnings”\u003cbr\u003e Michael Symmons Roberts, “The Future of Books”\u003cbr\u003e Elaine Equi, “The Libraries Didn’t Burn”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/i\u003eANDREW SCRIMGEOUR is Dean of Libraries Emeritus, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. He is Archivist Emeritus of the Society of Biblical Literature and the founding archivist of the American Academy of Religion.  His essays and short stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since Johannes Gutenberg transformed the printing of books, making them available to a wider public, books have captured the imaginations of readers everywhere, inspiring love, and even veneration. Indeed, books may be unrivaled in evoking such bonedeep affection. William Wordsworth said that these page-packed parcels have wings to take us ‘as far as we can go’, to ‘wilderness and wood, \/ Blank ocean and mere sky’. For Alberto Ríos, they are ‘the deli offerings of civilization itself ’. When you enter a room full of books, even if you don’t take one off the shelf, William Gladstone observed, ‘they seem to speak to you, to welcome you’. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e They also ask to be handled. As Rosemary Griebel put it, books wait ‘like abandoned dogs \/ for the warmth of hands on their spines’. Books are meant to be caressed, page by page, with a gentle downward motion, sometimes with a touch of moisture from the forefinger, as the reader leans attentively over them.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Books awaken all the senses, and many people name the sweet, musty autumn scent in libraries and used bookstores as among their favorites, along with freshly cut grass and bread baking in the oven. Robert Chapman evokes that olfactory delight: ‘Amidst the sweets and \/ Dust of the stacks \/ I edge from book to book like a grimy kid, \/ Flattening his nose against an infi nitude \/ Of candy store and bake shop fronts.’\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So we line our walls with them, spend the milk money on them, read them aloud, converse with them, argue with them, annotate them, learn from them, raid them, edit them, translate them, write more of them, and fail to winnow them – reaping the displeasure of our spouses and partners who threaten to turn us out of our book-crammed homes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Our adulation of books naturally extends to the consummate book \u003ci\u003eplace \u003c\/i\u003e– the library. We remember and honor the awe-inspiring reading rooms with their stained glass, inexhaustible holdings, and sequestered places in the stacks where, with Billy Collins, one might hear ‘a choir of authors murmuring inside their books \/ along the unlit, alphabetical shelves’.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Over the years as a dean of libraries, I loved being alone in the library at night after hours, especially in winter as snow fell. The library in its warm calm had the feel of a snug subterranean greenhouse – a place where texts slumbered like seeds in their stiff jackets, awaiting human hands to crack open their husks and bring to flower the tales of novelists, the arguments of philosophers, and the diggings of historians.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Not only are libraries the memory banks of civilization, they are symbolic sanctuaries of the freedom of a people to speak its mind. In the stacks a cacophony of voices is heard on every side of an issue, voices from the past and the present, from the center of the dominant culture and from the margins. The iconic figures of the past are routinely studied, interrogated, decried, demoted deconstructed, and revered – but never silenced or discarded. Minor ones and neglected ones are constantly discovered and rediscovered and promoted to principal interlocutors in scholarly discourse. Even the most hostile voices are accorded the same protected space. ‘If librarians were honest,’ writes Joseph Mills, ‘They would post danger \/ signs warning that contact \/ might result in mood swings, \/ severe changes in vision, \/ and mind-altering effects’.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Joining the tributes to libraries are those that honor librarians – the ones who welcomed the poets in their formative years into the world of books; who, as Nikki Giovanni says, first ‘opened that wardrobe \/ But no lions or witches scared me’; dependable guides who over the years encouraged them to go deeper into the stacks and take an armload of adventure home, when it might be enjoyed deep into the night under the covers with a flashlight.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The poets gathered here range from the author of Ecclesiastes in the third century BCE to canonical writers of British, American, and Spanish literature such as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Pablo Neruda. Strongly represented are contemporary poets writing in countries across many time zones. Some are well known  throughout the world, others enjoy regional status, and a few are published here for the first time. The love of books and libraries knows no linguistic boundaries, so a third of these poems have been rendered in translation. Interestingly, a number of the poets included have themselves been librarians, J. W. von Goethe, Coventry Patmore, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip Larkin and Rosemary Griebel amongst them.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I should like to dedicate this volume to Katherine W. McCain, Virginia Ramsey Mollenkott, Kent Harold Richards, Howard D. White and Louis Charles Willard, for debts untold.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Finally, as you embark on an excursion through these pages, a toast: \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e May the bookshelves on your walls be full\u003cbr\u003e May the book stacks on your desk\u003cbr\u003e and by your chair or bed be high\u003cbr\u003e And may the doors of your library\u003cbr\u003e remain open – always.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGodspeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew D. Scrimgeour","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301809246437,"sku":"NP9780593320198","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593320198.jpg?v=1767722944","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/books-and-libraries-isbn-9780593320198","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}