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Ciardi Himself
Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry
John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1989
An excellent introduction to the man and his thoughts on the painstaking craftsmanship involved in the art of writing poetry, Ciardi Himself includes some hard lessons, but in the hands of this master teacher, the going is easy.
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The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1997
From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
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Echoes
Poems Left Behind
John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1989

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Poems of Love and Marriage
John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1989

Collected from his published and heretofore unpublished work, the love poems of John Ciardi in Poems of Love and Marriage are a rich display of gentle wit, emotion, and craft. Not merely lyrics of youthful romance, these span the course of a love affair, of a life shared from first blush to old age.

These poems never disturb the sanctity of the private moment, but transcend the specific situation and bloom into universal recognition. And in his usual way of basking in those qualities which transform the ordinary into the unique, John Ciardi finds poignancy and truth in those elements of love and living together that so often go unnoticed.

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Saipan
The War Diary of John Ciardi
John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1988
Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.
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