Collected poems, 1952-1999 / Robert Mezey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mezey, Robert.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Summary:

This important collection of poems, which spans a career of nearly fifty years, demonstrates Robert Mezey's development as a notable stylist, thinker and poet. Moving from adaptations of Latin and Spanish poems to prayers and lamentations, from elegies and plaints of lost love to flights of comic and ribald fancy, his poetry reaches to the extremes of human experience. The death of friends and family, one's self-betrayals and self-infatuations, the comical confusion of a worried mother, the art of a doomed Jewish child in a Nazi concentration camp-all these human dramas play out bravely against the backdrop of the beautiful indifferent earth.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1557286124

OCLC:

44131621