Springing
New and Selected Poems
$30.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2004
Summary
New and Selected PoemsFrom the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”-a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublish…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375709876 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375709878 |
| Author: | Marie Ponsot |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 149mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
“Marie Ponsot’s poetic achievement is fiercely independent. A courageous eloquence is sustained throughout her work, as she mounts up what Emerson called ‘the stairway of surprise.’”
—Harold Bloom
About The Author
Marie Ponsot
Marie Ponsot’s first book of poems was True Minds (1956); later books are Admit Impediment (1981) and The Green Dark (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. Ponsot’s most recent collection, The Bird Catcher, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1998.
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