New And Collected Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Wilbur, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156654911 ISBN 13: 9780156654913

Publisher: Ecco, 1989

Synopsis

This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur’s published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.

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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 laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0156654911
• ISBN 13: 9780156654913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416