Selected Poetry - Softcover

Hollander, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679761985 ISBN 13: 9780679761983

Publisher: Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry.  But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment.”
Vernon Shetley, The New Republic

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.

Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.

Review:

About The House
Adam's Task
Aristotle To Phyllis; For Rogers Albritton
Asylum Avenue
At The New Year
August Carving (from Blue Wine)
Being Alone In The Field
The Bird
Blue Wine (from Blue Wine)
The Boat
Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom
Building A Tower
Cohen On The Telephone
Crocus Solus
The Dancing Shadows
Digging It Out
End Of A Chapter
Examples
Figures Of Speech. Figures Of Thought. Figures Of Earth ...
Fireworks
For Both Of You, The Divorce Being Final
From The Ramble
Glass Landscape
Granny Smith
The Great Bear
The Head Of The Bed
Helicon
His Master's Voice
Hobbes, 1651
A House In The Tropics
Humming
In Place Of Body
In Place Of Place
Keepsakes
Kinneret
Kranich And Bach
The Lady's-maid Song
Late August On The Lido
Letter To Jorge Luis Borges: Apropos Of The Golem
A Lion Named Passion
The Mad Potter
Memories Of The Grand Tour
Mount Blank
Movie-going
The Muse In The Monkey Tower
A New Leaf
The Night Mirror
The Ninth Of Ab
The Ninth Of July
Not Something For Nothing
Off Marblehead
Officer's Quarters
The Old Pier-glass
Over The Hills And Far Away
Patches Of Light Like Shadows Of Something
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The Problem Of Pain
Race Rock Light
Rotation Of Crops
A Season In Hellas
The Shades
Some Of The Parts (from Blue Wine)
Something Wrong Down At The Pond
Sonnets For Roseblush (from Town And Country Matters)
Spectral Emanations: After An Old Text
Spectral Emanations: Blue
Spectral Emanations: Collected Novels
Spectral Emanations: Departed Indigo
Spectral Emanations: Green
Spectral Emanations: Looking East On Twelfth Street
Spectral Emanations: Nocturne
Spectral Emanations: On The Calendar
Spectral Emanations: Orange
Spectral Emanations: Prologue - The Way To The Throne Room
Spectral Emanations: Red
Spectral Emanations: The Angler's Story
Spectral Emanations: The Lady Of The Castle
Spectral Emanations: Violet
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Sunday Evenings
Tales Told Of The Fathers
A Theory Of Waves
Under Cancer
Under Capricorn
A View Of The Ruins
Waiting
The Way We Walk Now
A Week In The Country
West End Blues
The Will
The Ziz
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679761985
• ISBN 13: 9780679761983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352