Springing: New and Selected Poems (First Edition)

Marie Ponsot

ISBN 10: 0375413898 / ISBN 13: 9780375413896

Published by Knopf, New York, 2002

About this Item

First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: A few tiny dots (ink, not foxing or remainder) on top edge and tiny narrow bumps on lower edge of an otherwise beautiful, very fine, as-new copy. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. REVIEW copy with review card laid in.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-400

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Springing: New and Selected Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375413898
• ISBN 13: 9780375413896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”—a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a “lost haven in a springing world.” Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.

About the Author

Marie Ponsot’s first book of poems was True Minds (1956); later books are Admit Impediment (1981) and The Green Dark (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. Ponsot’s most recent collection, The Bird Catcher, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1998.