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Robert Hedin

Author of The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age Of Airships

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Edited by poets Robert Hedin and James Lenfestey, The Uncommon Speech of Paradise showcases the work of 120 modern and contemporary poets from seventeen countries-including Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, and Anna Akhmatova-as well as works by such premier American poets as John show more Ashbery, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Mary Oliver, Joy Harjo, and Wallace Stevens. Together, they offer a wide variety of voices, styles, and perspectives on the theory practice, and purpose of poetry. show less

Works by Robert Hedin

The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age Of Airships (1998) 12 copies

Alaska: Reflections on Land and Spirit (1989) 9 copies

The Great Machines: Poems and Songs from the Age of the American Railroad (1996) 9 copies

The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1998) 9 copies

County O (1984) 8 copies

Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (2007) 8 copies

In The Dreamlight (1984) 7 copies

Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (2003) 5 copies

At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations (2017) 5 copies

The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska (1994) 2 copies

Snow country (1975) 2 copies

On the Day of Bulls (1979) 1 copy

Great River Review, Spring/Summer 2011, Number 54 1 copy

The Uncommon Speech of Paradise: Poems on the Art of Poetry (2021) 1 copy

Associated Works

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 774 copies

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The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Finalist – Poetry – 1999)

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Works: 14
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ISBNs: 18

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