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02121aam a2200229 i 4500 001 4FBCDCAC084911EFAA6956CE2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502010040 008 240209s2024 nyu 000 p eng d 020 $a 0593536312 020 $a 9780593536315 035 $a (OCoLC)1424631230 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d OCO $d OCLCO $d LE# $d SILO 245 00 $a Spellbound : $b poems of magic and enchantment / $c edited by Kimiko Hahn and Harold Schechter. 264 1 $a New York : $b Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, $c 2024. 300 $a 249 pages ; $c 17 cm 520 $a A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magicians. No matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet's art depends on a form of wizardry--the ability to conjure enchantment from a particular combination of words. Venerable literary wizards such as Shakespeare's Prospero, Tennyson's Merlin, and T. S. Eliot's Mr. Mistoffelees make appearances here alongside illusionists and prestidigitators in Kay Ryan's "Houdini," Ted Kooser's "Card Trick," Charles Simic's "My Magician," and Richard Wilbur's "The Mind-Reader." Here is a treasury of poetic spells, charms, and incantations, from Elise Paschen's "Love Spell," Robert Graves's "Love and Black Magic," and Lu Yu's "The Pedlar of Spells," to a Cherokee "Spell to Destroy Life." And here, too, are all sorts of sorcerers, conjurers, enchantresses, and witches, as captured in Emily Dickinson's "Best Witchcraft is Geometry," Michael Schmidt's "Nine Witches," and H. D.'s "Circe," keeping company with magical poems from cultures around the world. 700 1 $a Hahn, Kimiko, $d 1955- $e editor. 700 1 $a Schechter, Harold, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010411.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4FBCDCAC084911EFAA6956CE2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search