New and Collected Poems

by Richard Wilbur

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156654913
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/18/1989
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)

About the Author

RICHARD WILBUR, one of America’s most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.

Editorial Reviews

``Reprinting six of his principal verse collections, this omnibus displays Wilbur's many facets as nature poet, mordant commentator on social mores, philosophizer and as a translator adept at capturing the varied moods of poets as different as Voznesensky,Voznesensky in web.3/lk Borges and Jean de la Fontaine. Included also are 27 new poems, plus the cantata `On Freedom's Ground','' observed PW. The volume won the Pulitzer Prize. (Sept.)

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