Anterooms: New Poems and Translations - Hardcover

Wilbur, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547358113 ISBN 13: 9780547358116

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.

A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human condition through reflections on nature and love. Anterooms also features masterly translations from Mallarmé’s “The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe,” a previously unpublished Verlaine poem, two poems by Joseph Brodsky, and thirty-seven of Symphosius’s clever Latin riddles.

Whether he is considering a snow shovel and domestic life or playfully considering that “Inside homeowner is the word meow,” Wilbur’s new collection is sure to delight everyone from longtime devotees to casual poetry readers. Exploring the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted, Anterooms is nothing less than an event in poetic history and a remarkable addition to a master’s oeuvre.

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From the Back Cover:

 In Praise of Anterooms

"A new collection by our greatest living poet is cause for wonder and gratitude. Wilbur searches both the natural world and the human heart for hard truths he renders with a matchless grace. Anterooms bursts with a ripened and rueful joy. This is a book not just for your shelves but for the ages." —J. D. McClatchy

"Richard Wilbur's imagination has long regarded life in the bud--the seedling, the fledgling, the sprout, the egg. His flowering never ceases to unfold." -- Mary Jo Salter

"There's perfection of music and utterance everywhere in these brave, radiant, exalted
new poems."  -- David Ferry

"For a long time now, Richard Wilbur has reigned as our finest lyric poet. The title still belongs to him, as Anterooms (what a joy!) proves several times over." -- X.J. Kennedy

"In 1947, Richard Wilbur broke into the literary big leagues with his stunning first collection of poems, The Beautiful Changes; and as Anterooms demonstrates, he is still regularly hitting the ball out of the park sixty-three years later"—Timothy Steele

From the Inside Flap:

A major event in poetic history and a remarkable addition to a master’s oeuvre

Anterooms is the first new volume in a decade from this Pultizer Prize-winning, former Poet Laureate of the United States. Here, Richard Wilbur continues to explore the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted. These twenty-two poems and translations are accompanied thirty-seven delightful riddles translated from the Latin, making up a collection that is masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.

Rejoice at the news of this collection from a legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation” by the New York Times Book Review and whose work was called "one of the saving graces to poetry in our time" by the Washington Post.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547358113
• ISBN 13: 9780547358116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80