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Collected poems / Ellen Bryant Voigt.

PS3572.O34 A6 2023

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-2025, author.
Standardized Title:: Poems. Selections
Language:: English
Genre:: Poetry.
Physical Description:: 473 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Summary:: "In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence, and meticulous observation of nature, history, and domestic life. This definitive collection showcases the brilliant career of "a quintessential American elegist""-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:: Machine generated contents note: CLAIMING KIN (1976); I; Tropics; At the Edge of Winter; Animal Study; Black Widow; The Heart Is the Target; Delilah; Preparation; Snakeskin; Southern Artifact; American at Auschwitz; Stork; Suicides; Dialogue: Poetics; Song; For S.; II; Farm Wife; "The Wife Takes a Child"; The Handmaiden; Gathering; Birthday Sestina; Claiming Kin; Sister; The Hen; The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin; III; Damage; House; The Letter; April, 1945; The Waning Moon; Executioner; The Victim; The Burial; The Marriage; The Birth; The Drowned Man; Harvest; The Quickening; The Visit; All Souls' Day; THE FORCES OF PLENTY (1983); The Spire; A Fugue; Jug Brook; The Medium; The Gymnast; Pastoral; The Spring; Why She Says No; The Diviner; Alba; For My Husband; A Marriage Poem; Exile; Blue Ridge; The Couple; Eurydice; Epithalamium; Quarrel; Year's End; Liebesgedicht; January; The Apology; Rescue; Talking the Fire Out; Daughter; Letter from Vermont; The Happiness Poems; The Bat; Sweet Everlasting; For My Mother; For My Father; THE LOTUS FLOWERS (1987); The Last Class; Visiting the Graves; Feast Day; The Photograph; The Riders; The Chosen; The Trust; The Farmer; A Song; Short Story; Stone Pond; The Visitor; The Wide and Varied World; The Field Trip; Nocturne; Fairy Tale; Under Gemini; Good News; Amaryllis; Nightshade; At the Movie: Virginia, 1956; The Storm; The Cusp; The Pendulum; Frog; The Waterfall; Memorial Day; The Wish; Bright Leaf; The Fence; Equinox; Landscape, Dense with Trees; The Lotus Flowers; May; Dancing with Poets; TWO TREES (1992); First Song; Effort at Speech; At the Piano; Variations: At the Piano; After Keats; Self-Portrait at LaGuardia; The Harness; Thorn-Apple; Variations: Thorn-Apple; Two Trees; The Box; The Innocents; Soft Cloud Passing; Woman Who Weeps; The Soothsayer; Fish; Variations: The Innocents; Herzenlied; The Pond; The Letters; Gobelins; Song and Story; KYRIE (1995); SHADOW OF HEAVEN (2002); Winter Field; Largesse; Apple Tree; The Others; Practice; Himalaya; Lesson; High Winds Flare Up and the Old House Shudders; The Garden, Spring, The Hawk; The Art of Distance; Dooryard Flower; Horace: Ode I.xxxiv; Plaza del Sol; Anthropology; A Brief Domestic History; Long Marriage; Autumn in the Yard We Planted; Last Letter; Horace: Ode I.xxxvii; What I Remember of Larry's Dream of Yeats; MESSENGER: NEW POEMS (2006); The Feeder; Deathbed; The Hive; Harvesting the Cows; Rubato; Redbud; The Tattered Dress; Prayer; Adagio; Messenger; HEADWATERS (2013); Headwaters; Privet Hedge; Stones; Oak; My Mother; Owl; Milkmaid; Yearling; Cow; Fox; Noble Dog; Moles; Garter Snake; Groundhog; Hog-Nosed Skunk; Hound; Lost Boy; Maestro; Geese; Birch; Bear; Chameleon; Lament; Spring; Sleep; Larch; Roof; Storm.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (page 459) and indexes.
Other Format:: ebook version :
ISBN:: 9781324035329; 1324035323
OCLC:: 1370607974

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