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A delightful anthology that celebrates in verse the silent poetry of dance and the dancer. Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high-school proms and wedding waltzes, tango, tarantella, mambo, flamenco, reels and jigs, disco and ballet - dances of all kinds move through the poems gathered here, as do some of the world's most famous dancers, from Nijinsky and Pavlova to Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire; from Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine and Martha Graham to Baryshnikov and Bojangles. In the work of more than 150 poets - including Shakespeare, Milton, Hafez, Rumi, Li Po, Rilke, Rimbaud, Lorca, Akhmatova, Whitman, Dickinson, Cummings, Eliot and Merrill - we feel and see the grace, the drama, the expressive power, and the sheer joy to be found in dance, around the world and through the ages.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Dance
• Author: Emily Fragos
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781841597683
• ISBN: 1841597686
• ID: 04253848
• Publisher: Everyman
• Weight: 232 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 113 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. April 2006

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