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The Art of Angling

Poems about Fishing

Edited by Henry Hughes

Edited by Henry Hughes

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Part of Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series

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Apr 05, 2011 | ISBN 9780307597038

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About The Art of Angling

The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the beloved sport.

Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry—Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern masterpieces abound as well, by the likes of Federico García Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde, Richard Hugo, and Derek Walcott. In the hands of the poets collected here, fishing with a hook and line yields reflections both sparklingly light and awe-inspiringly deep. Filled with humor, nostalgia, adventure, celebrations of the beauties of nature, and metaphors for the art of living, The Art of Angling is sure to lure anglers and lovers of poetry alike.

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About Henry Hughes

HENRY HUGHES is a poet, essayist, and professor of English at Western Oregon University. A winner of the Oregon Book Award, he is also the editor of the Everyman’s Library collections The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing and Fishing Stories.

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Category: Poetry | Classic Nonfiction | Science & Technology

Hardcover | $18.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Apr 05, 2011 | 256 Pages | 4-1/8 x 6-1/4 | ISBN 9780307597038

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“A warm, witty, and wise collection . . . This anthology gathers genuine, artful verse . . . Good literary stuff to accompany a single malt by the fire. Buy a copy for the study and another to be battered in your angling grip.” —Gray’s Sporting Journal

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