Xv, 393 Pp. Maroon Boards, Spine Gilt, Matching Slipcase. First Edition, 335 Of 100 Copies With An Inserted Limitation Leaf. Pulitzer Prize Winning Collection, Wilbur's Second. Fine In Fine Slipcase, Slight Foxing To Edges Of Page Block. Kirby Congdon Was A Poet, Essayist And Novelist Based In Key West And Fire Island .

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Title

New And Collected Poems (Signed Limited Edition, With Signed Postcard To Kirby Congdon)

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151652058

ISBN 13

9780151652051

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Slipcase

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur’s published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.

Review

These collected poems of the Poet Laureate of the United States are, despite the prevailing view of modern poetry, a monument to the accessible and the beautiful. The language is lush, full "of heat and juice and heavy jammed excess," and deeply thoughtful. His concern for careful human stewardship of nature extends also to the artist's creative struggle to capture the truth of the world. One poignant poem, "The Writer," addresses this through his reaction to listening outside the door as his daughter earnestly struggles to compose a story on her typewriter: "It is always a matter, my darling/Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish/ What I wished you before, but harder." The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1989.

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