Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991

by Hayden Carruth

Overview

Lyric, erotic, and meditative, this collection stands as a monument to the technical virtuosity of one of the major poets of our time. "Rarely do poets earn the unqualified admiration of both their academic and experimental peers, but Carruth--through his artistic versatility and critical ecumenism--has been doing just that for half a century."--Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556590498
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	596,573
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Hayden Carruth is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies, and has held fellowships from the Bollingen, Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, as well as the NEA. His many awards include the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lenore Marshall/The Nation Award.

Editorial Reviews

...such titles as "A Little Old Funky Homeric Blues for Herm" and "Asphalt Georgics" signal Carruth's gradual attraction to the vernacular, the eventual embrace of which in his formal measures has resulted in some fine poems

Publishers Weekly

From a poet who has "earn[ed] the unqualified admiration of both [his] academic and experimental peers" (LJ 4/1/92), a sampling of a half century of work.

Library Journal