The Pulitzer Prizewinning collection of poems offers readers a sensuous feast of poetry about food, weather, lovers, animals, friends, and other joys of life. Reprint.
This volume brings together Howe's earliest poems that she wishes to remain in print, in the forms she wishes them to be preserved. Includes a long preface that discusses the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical influences on these works.
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains ...
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For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous editions of the individual parts contained errors which the poet intended to correct in a definitive ed ...
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