A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets--117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry "pure fire in the hands" and cheered the "roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her w
On the great atlantic rainway: selected poems 1950-1988
โ Scribed by Kenneth Koch
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299039227
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โฆ Synopsis
On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Mr. Kochโs poems have a natural voice, they are quick, alert, instinctive . . . He has vivacity and go, originality of perception and intoxication with life. Most important of all, he is not dull.โ --Frank OโHara,*Poetry*, 1955 Gathered together for the first time, the exciting, startling early
**The โtechnically and emotionally heart-stopping poemsโ (** Spectator**) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume.** The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have broug