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New collection explores what poetry is and how it is created
Grace Schulman’s First Loves and Other Adventures touches on everything from the origins of
her poetry, to inspirational works for poets, to scientists who may just be poets in their own right
First Loves and Other Adventures
by Grace Schulman
Cloth: 978-0-472-07087-9/ $60 Paper: 978-0-472-05087-1/ $24.95
Publication Date: December 2009
Grace Schulman is well-known to the nation’s poets. She was the director of the Poetry Center,
former poetry editor for the Nation, winner of three Pushcart prizes, selected by Library Journal
as the author of the best poetry book of 2002 and winner of honors ranging from the Aiken
Taylor Award for poetry to a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In this volume of her own essays, she explores what drives poetry for herself and for other
writers, ranging from her own autobiographical influences (an aunt who leapt from a tower in
Poland, her father reading to her in a foreign language) to those writers whose work continues to
inspire her own. She also explores other disciplines and their relationship to poetry, ranging from
the link between Albert Einstein, DNA discoverers Watson and Crick, and an image in a poem;
and the reason why gifted lyricist Stephen Sondheim may himself actually be a poet.
First Loves will be available as part of Press’ award-winning Poets on Poetry series in December
for $24.95 in paperback. For interviews with the author, book cover art, an author photo, an
author biography or other information, please contact Heather Newman (below) or see the press
kit at www.press.umich.edu/mediakits.
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