Description
This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source of American poetry.
Author: Theodore Roethke
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/10/1974
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.10w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780385086011
ISBN10: 0385086016
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Religious
Author: Theodore Roethke
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/10/1974
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.10w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780385086011
ISBN10: 0385086016
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Religious
About the Author
Born in 1908 in Saginaw, MI, Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. He died in 1963 at the age of 55.