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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780802116079
ISBN: 0802116078
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 139
Publication Date: 1997-03-21
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Intelligently Moving and Wonderfully Well-Written
Review: Eric Ormsby takes his place among the great poets of the 20th century with his New and Selected poems. He is at home with traditional forms, metrics, and rhyme. He is comfortable with free verse and imagistic poetry. This collection shows a range that is matched only by the very best poets such as Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, David Slavitt, and Robert Penn Warren.

Ormsby is also a well-rounded thinker and scholar. His understanding of the literatures and languages of other cultures lends to his work that thing so often missing in contemporary poetry--substance. His poems are informed by his studies in German, French, Hungarian, and Middle-Eastern literature.

Ormsby is a wonderful addition to the ranks of major poets. Buy this book. It's the best collection of poetry I've read this year.

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