The History of The Invitation: New and Selected Poems 1963-2000 - Softcover

Tony Towle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882413954 ISBN 13: 9781882413959

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, 2001

Synopsis

Poetry. The wit, power and elegance of Towle's poetry is brought together at last in one definitive volume. One of the clear, authentic voices of American poetry -- Kenneth Koch. Meditative, erudite, stunning with ease and quirky sanity...a phenomenal measure of a poet's nearly four decades -- Anne Waldman. Belongs in every library of poetry, possibly on its own shelf -- Billy Collins.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Towle was born in New York in 1939, grew up in Queens and Westchester and then spent three years in Washington, D.C. He came back to New York in 1960, shortly after he began writing poetry, and has lived there ever since. He has written about his life in New York in the early sixties in his Memoir 1960-63.

Review:

After Them
Alacrity
Big Schlep
Blastoff
Brochure
Calling All Cars
Chapter
Close Caption
Connection Charges
Conveyor
Croon
Cultivation
Customs House
Dairy Yen
Dingy Armada
Dippers
Ductile
Egress
Fan Out
Far And Wide
Feet First
Free
Free Market
Guided And Free
Igneous
Infinite Thrust
Inner Mongolia
Isolated Bourgeoisie
Known Figments
Late Entry
Lofty Patois
Making Tracks
Marvel Comics
Moisten, Dry
Overlook
Pagoda Power
Partial Proof
Phone Ahead
Position
Power Glide
Protocol
Protracted War
Rousing Vignettes
Singularity Among Equals
Slipping In
Song Of The Open
Spokes-model
Squirt
Sustained Truth
Topography
Transponder
Verge
Waves Of Wonder
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1882413954
• ISBN 13: 9781882413959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 81