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Poems for life, a special collection of poetry selected by: E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wiesel and many more / introduction by Anna Quindlen

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Poems for life

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a special collection of poetry selected by: E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wiesel and many more / introduction by Anna Quindlen

Responses from fifty celebrities who received letters from fifth-grade students posing the question, "What is your favorite poem?"

Teachers' note -- Introduction: "Poetry Emotion" / by Anna Quindlen -- Contributors (in alphabetical order) and their selections: Jane Alexander, "In Black Earth, Wisconsin" / by Andrea Musher -- Brooke Astor, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" / by William Wordsworth -- Ken Auletta, "Ode to the west wind" / by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Harolyn M. Blackwell, "To be somebody" / by Langston Hughes -- Martin Charnin, "Laughing down lonely canyons" / by James Cavernaugh -- Mario Cuomo, "Outwitted" / by Edwin Markham -- David Dinkins, "Stars" / by Langston Hughes -- E.L. Doctorow, "A blessing" / by James Wright -- Geraldine Ferraro, "If" / by Rudyard Kipling -- Allen Ginsberg, "Ode to the west wind" / by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Rudolph Giuliani, "If I can stop one heart from breaking" / by Emily Dickinson -- Richard F. Grein, excerpt from "Four quartets" / by T.S. Eliot -- David Halberstam, excerpt from "The passing of Arthur" / by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" / by Robert Frost -- Sheldon Harnick, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer" / by Walt Whitman -- Bill Irwin, "The yachts" / by William Carlos Williams -- Peter Jennings, "Man with wooden leg escapes prison" / by James Tate -- Edward I. Koch, "Annabel Lee" / by Edgar Allen Poe -- Kenneth Koch, "The dawn of me" / by Jeff Morley -- Jill Krementz, "The low road" / by Marge Piercy -- Angela Lansbury, "Cuttin' rushes" / by Moira O'Neill -- Yo-yo E. Ma, "Ode on a Grecian urn" / by John Keats -- David Mamet, "The dog" / by David Mamet -- Jason McManus, "I never saw a Moor" / by Emily Dickinson -- Joan S. McMenamin, "Life is mostly" / by A. L. Gordon, and "He that loveth" / by Thomas à Kempis -- Ved Mehta, "Dover Beach" / by Matthew Arnold -- Ismail Merchant, "Song" / by Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- Ruth W. Messinger, "The gift outright" / by Robert Frost -- Susan Minot, "When I have fears that I may cease to be" / by John Keats -- Joyce Carol Oates, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" / by Emily Dickinson -- Ron Padgett, "A step away from them" / by Frank O'Hara -- Harold Prince, "Credo" / by Thomas Wolfe -- Anna Quindlen, "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" / by W. B. Yeats -- David Read, "Holy Sonnet XIV" ("Batter my heart, three-personed God") / by John Donne -- Richard W. Riley, "Duty was joy" / by Rabindranath Tagore -- Isabella Rossellini, "Get yourself drunk" / by Charles Baudelaire -- Gene Saks, "Does it matter?" / by Siegfried Sassoon -- Diane Sawyer, "If" / by Rudyard Kipling -- Whitney North Seymour Jr., excerpt from "Inscription for the entrance to a wood" / by William Cullen Bryant -- Ally Sheedy, "On stripping bark from myself" / by Alice Walker -- Beverly Sills, "It is not the critic who counts" / by Theodore Roosevelt -- Margaret Chase Smith, "My creed" / by Margaret Chase Smith -- Ronald B. Sobel, "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" / by Robert Frost -- Stephen Sondheim, "Come to the edge" / by Christopher Logue -- Liv Ullmann, "Meditation #17" ("No man is an island") / by John Donne -- Kurt Vonnegut, "The angel that presided o'er my birth" / by William Blake -- Wendy Wasserstein, excerpt from "The rime of the ancient mariner" / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Paul Watkins, "Clouds" / by Rupert Brooke -- Elie Wiesel, "From tomorrow on, I shall be sad" / by Motele -- Elizabeth Winthrop, "Wild geese" / by Mary Oliver -- Tom Wolfe, excerpt from "I've been to a marvelous party" / by Noel Coward -- Grade V students