The wilderness, and other poems / Louis O. Coxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coxe, Louis O., 1918-1993.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--20th century.

Poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1958]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Wilderness and Other Poems was first published in 1958. This collection, Mr. Coxe's third published volume of poetry, includes the long narrative poem ""The Wilderness"" and thirty-four shorter lyric poems. Of this book, Morton Dauwen Zabel writes: ""The Wilderness is a collection of series and thoughtful poems, scrupulously conceived and phrased, many of them notable for personal charm and feeling as well, and for combining a keenly responsible intelligence with genuine lyric and reflective emotion.""

Contents:

Contents; Flying Home; From the Window Down; The Waking; The Glen; Seascape: A Memory; End of the Road; Finite but Unbounded; Hero's Winter; The Old Ones; The Flood; The Mythmakers; The Lot; Lent; Pentecost; Spring near the Airbase; America to Hungary, 1956; A Study of History; Watching Bird; Diesel Train; Arbor Vitae; Reading at Night; The Hostage; Fall of Leaf; Autumn Nymphal; Peace with Skyrockets; Northwest Wind; Winter Headland; Woman at the Window; The Trail; Aids to Navigation; Group-Dynamics; Snow Sculpture; Between Worlds; For My Son's Birthday; The Wilderness

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-6201-0

OCLC:

476161458