New and Collected Poems - Hardcover

Wilbur, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151652066 ISBN 13: 9780151652068

Publisher: Harcourt, 1988

Synopsis

Spanning four decades of work and encompassing the poet's six previously published volumes of poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata, this volume represents the lifetime work of the man invested as Poet Laureate of the United States, October 1987

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Review:

These collected poems of the Poet Laureate of the United States are, despite the prevailing view of modern poetry, a monument to the accessible and the beautiful. The language is lush, full "of heat and juice and heavy jammed excess," and deeply thoughtful. His concern for careful human stewardship of nature extends also to the artist's creative struggle to capture the truth of the world. One poignant poem, "The Writer," addresses this through his reaction to listening outside the door as his daughter earnestly struggles to compose a story on her typewriter: "It is always a matter, my darling/Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish/ What I wished you before, but harder." The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1989.

About the Author:

RICHARD WILBUR, one of America’s most beloved poets, has served as poet

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0151652066
• ISBN 13: 9780151652068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 393