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Robert Francis and his friend Henry Lyman gathered most of the poems for this collection in the winter of 1987, a few months before the poet's death at age eighty-five. More than half were written since the publication of Francis's Collected Poems, 1936-1976, and others were drawn from earlier work not available in that volume or in his seven previous collections. Still others have been added since, among them several poems recently discovered between the pages of his letters. While age is a recurring theme, Late fire, Late Snow is arranged so that the later poems converse with the earlier ones in an engaging mixture of subject and tone, mingling the pastoral with the political, the contemplative with the Chaplinesque.
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About the Author:
Robert Francis was born in Pennsylvania in 1901 and then moved to Massachusetts where he graduated from Harvard University in 1923. Returning to Amherst, Massachusetts, Francis published his first volume of poetry in 1936, which received the Shelly Memorial Prize. In 1975, after his long and distinguished writing career, the University of Massachusetts Press established its annual Juniper Prize in Poetry in Francis' honor.
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"He is the most remarkable, I think, when the poet seems at most a witness; when the images, with their straightforward names, seem to appear on their own initiative; and when, from these images, some mood or thought gradually transpires."―Richard Wilbur
"Francis captures better than almost anyone a certain mood. It can't really be named, but is some indefinable blend of lonely integrity, philosophical pessimism, and temperamental gaiety."―David Graham
"He is so penetrating, delicate, and wise, one goes away without having said a word, merely grateful to have received so much."―Marianne Moore
"Francis captures better than almost anyone a certain mood. It can't really be named, but is some indefinable blend of lonely integrity, philosophical pessimism, and temperamental gaiety."―David Graham
"He is so penetrating, delicate, and wise, one goes away without having said a word, merely grateful to have received so much."―Marianne Moore
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- PublisherUniv of Massachusetts Pr
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0870238132
- ISBN 13 9780870238130
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages72
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