Type: Book

An anothology celebrating the international language of dance through poems by some of the world’s most noted poets:

Carl Sandburg
Euripides
Lord Byron
Denise Levertov
Langston Hughes
Li Po
Thomas Hardy
Rainer Maria Rilke
D.H. Lawrence
William Butler Yeats
Ezra Pound
Sa’di
Theodore Roethke
William Carlos Williams
Anne Sexton
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

And Others

Among the dancers who are the subjects of the poems:

Isadora Duncan
Martha Graham
Gene Kelly
Arthur Mitchell
Anna Pavlova
Vaslav Nijinsky

The volume of eighty-six poems was originally sponsored by the International Dance Council of UNESCO. The book opens with a preface by dance scholar Selma Jeanne Cohen and an introductions by Alkis Raftis, who supplies profiles of all the contributors and sources of the poems. Dance in Poetry is valuable for all lovers of dance and poetry, young and old.