Marie Ponsotâ€™s Collected Poems is the stunning lifework of the prizewinning poet, gathered in one volume: the world she has made of lifeâ€™s fire for sixty years. The present

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Collected Poems

Marie Ponsotâ€™s Collected Poems is the stunning lifework of the prizewinning poet, gathered in one volume: the world she has made of lifeâ€™s fire for sixty years. The present celebratory volume covers nearly all of her published work, from True Minds (1956), which was number five in the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series, through the 2009 Easy, her most recent collection; it also includes some new work, written in the years since. Here is the lyrical joy, the full range of Ponsotâ€™s gift for constructing the pleasures and pains of a riddle that the music and wit of her language solve just in the nick of time, in the â€œhand-span skillâ€ that is the poem. In examining the powerful life of women, her poetry is as practical as it is profound. â€œGo to a wedding / as to a funeral,â€ she advises us. â€œBury the loss.â€ (And adds: â€œGo to a funeral / as to a wedding: / marry the loss.â€) Notable in this collection is the astonishing accomplishment of Ponsotâ€™s sonnets: the traditional form in varieties weâ€™ve never seen in one book before. Open these pages anywhere to experience â€œlanguage as the primitive dialect of our human race,â€ as she has described itâ€”to gradually enter a state that is â€œwhat poetry hopes of us and for us: enraptured attention.â€

Country	USA
Author	Marie Ponsot
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Knopf Publishing Group
EAN	9781101947678
Edition	First Edition
Feature	Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN	1101947675
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	496
PublicationDate	2016-08-02
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2016-08-02
Studio	Knopf

Collected Poems

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