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A new poetry book from a Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
Synopsis:
'These poems are splendidly direct, magnificently simple; sometimes the phrasing is so elegantly obvious that the heart jumps at it.... This is a book which ought to be read at least three times, and then maybe once a month for as long as one lives. The first three readings are essential, if the reader is going to get much from these poems; the seem to make so few demands, they look so obvious, they are so subtle.' — Hal Smith, Epoch
Product details
59 pages
Wesleyan University Press ;Scranton, Pa. :Distributed by Harper & Row,c1968 1983 -
English9780819510181
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'These poems are splendidly direct, magnificently simple; sometimes the phrasing is so elegantly obvious that the heart jumps at it.... This is a book which ought to be read at least three times, and then maybe once a month for as long as one lives. The first three readings are essential, if the reader is going to get much from these poems; the seem to make so few demands, they look so obvious, they are so subtle.' — Hal Smith, Epoch
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