The Collected Poems of John Ciardi - Softcover

Ciardi, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557284490 ISBN 13: 9781557284495

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press, 1997

Synopsis

From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.

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Ciardi, the winner of many awards and honors and a highly esteemed translator of Dante, was one of America's premier modern poets of the latter half of this century. This volume supersedes the earlier Selected Poems (1984), providing a vastly more comprehensive sampling of Ciardi's work: 450 poems culled from over 20 individual volumes published between 1940 and 1993. In it we find testimony to Ciardi's desire to achieve not "a voice," a style formed to forward an author's individuality, but "voice"?one that is determined by the externals the poet addresses. If there is "a voice" present in Ciardi's work, it does not appear in any single poem but in what he calls the "total poem of all the others put together...his personality." Highly recommended for all libraries.?Thomas F. Merrill, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
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Edition details

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557284490
• ISBN 13: 9781557284495
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 618