The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001 (American Poets Continuum)

Simpson, Louis

ISBN 10: 1929918399 / ISBN 13: 9781929918393

Published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2003

About this Item

FINE first edition (so stated), first printing (with number line beginning with 1) of this late collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's New Collected Poems, in pictorial wraps and SIGNED by Simpson on the title page. Scarce signed. Bright, square, and tight.

Seller Inventory # 102320251

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001 (American Poets Continuum)
• Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929918399
• ISBN 13: 9781929918393
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 2.286W x 14.986H x 22.86D centimeters 2.286 centimeters width by 14.986 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 535 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Firsts
  • Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover’s quarrel with the world.

"Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."—Seamus Heaney

Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

About the Author

Educated at Munro College (Jamaica, West Indies) and at Columbia where he received his doctorate, Louis Simpson has taught at various universities. The author of seventeen books of poetry, he has received the Rome Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Hudson Review Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and the Pulitzer Prize.