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Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

Paperback Book  |  Reading  |  03 Dec 2024
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From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken. In the words of editor Edward Hirsch, He courted the irrational and embraced what is most vulnerable in life.

Hirsch's selection and perceptive introduction illuminate the daring and intensity of a poet who, in poems such as My Papa's Waltz and The Lost Son, reached back into the abyss of childhood in an attempt to wrest self-knowledge out of memory. Roethke's true subject was the unfathomable depths of his own being, but his existential investigations were always shaped and disciplined by an exacting formal stringency, as equally at ease with Yeats' vigorous cadence (Four for Sir John Davies) as with the spacious Whitmanian idiom on display in the virtuoso efforts ofThe Far Field.This gathering of Roethke's works also includes several of his poems for children, and a generous sampling from his notebook writings, offering a glimpse of the poet at work with the raw materials of language and ideas.

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Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.

Title: Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

Format: Paperback Book

Release Date: 03 Dec 2024

Type: Theodore Roethke

Sku: 3110399

Catalogue No: 9781598537956

Category: Reading


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