Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up SIGNED FIRST EDITION
New York: HarperOne, 2026.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ellen Burstyn to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated First Edition, with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/4" X 6 3/8". 258pp. Very light shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket, with SIGNED FIRST EDITION label to front panel, with gentle rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bound in white textured paper over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. A highly presentable signed first edition of this moving collection of poetry selected and celebrated by the legendary Academy Award–winning actress Ellen Burstyn.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
"A generous, heartfelt gift." — Kirkus (STARRED review)
The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.
We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that wonder with friends and loved ones.
In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen reveals she had an evangelical response to learning poetry even as a child and would memorize and recite the works of Edna St Vincent Millay to envelope herself in the poet’s deeper emotional landscape.
As Burstyn continued her epic rise through film and theater—eventually winning an Oscar, a Tony, a BAFTA, and an Emmy—poetry gave voice to her experience as no other literary art form could. She never went anywhere without her curated “poetry pack.” While waiting on set, in rehearsal, on a train, or just relaxing, she found comfort in verse.
For nearly nine decades, poetry has led Ellen on a life of adventure, from a pilgrimage to Rumi’s birthplace to a friendship with Maya Angelou, during which the poet read her work in Ellen’s movie trailer, to selecting the poems to join her in love, in motherhood and in grief.
Featuring work by W.B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Oliver, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Rumi, William Ernest Henley, and others, Poetry Says It Better is a perfect daily companion for everyone looking to deepen and add meaning to their life experience. Throughout, Burstyn’s charming voice and luminous insights help readers meet her in this poetic celebration—soul to soul. (Publisher). Very good + / very good +. Item #17598
ISBN: 9780063512931
Price: $50.00