Next day : new and selected poems /
A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth and moral vision. Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among others, this volume is a t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth and moral vision. Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among others, this volume is a tour through Zarin's five exquisitely made collections, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth, published in 1988. Zarin, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop, allows the reader to experience human truths through a poem's shape and music, bodied forth through intimate images, the turn in the stair, a snow globe, naked birch branches, a vase of flowers and a propulsive syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce, from her own consciousness-shaping landscapes of New York, Cape Cod and Rome, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation, her subject matter encompasses all of a woman's life, with passion, its risks, satisfactions and shattering immediacy, her first and truest subject. |
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| Item Description: | "A Borzoi book"--title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 250 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780593536155 0593536150 9781524712358 1524712353 |