Collected Poems,: 1953-1993

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679422218 ISBN 13: 9780679422211

Publisher: Knopf, 1993

A varied anthology of poetry--representing forty years of work--encompasses nearly every poem from five previously published collections, as well as sixty new poems and a selection of light verse. 10,000 first printing.

From the Inside Flap:

back, John Updike's dazzling collection of poetry--as varied as the 40 years in which they were written--including nearly every poem from his five previously published collections, and more than 70 new poems and his light verse.

About the Author:

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.