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Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

Roethke, Theodore
Hirsch, Edward

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1598537954
ISBN13: 9781598537956
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken. In the words of editor Edward Hirsch, He courted the irrational and embraced what is most vulnerable in life.

Hirsch's selection and perceptive introduction illuminate the daring and intensity of a poet who, in poems such as My Papa's Waltz and The Lost Son, reached back into the abyss of childhood in an attempt to wrest self-knowledge out of memory. Roethke's true subject was the unfathomable depths of his own being, but his existential investigations were always shaped and disciplined by an exacting formal stringency, as equally at ease with Yeats' vigorous cadence (Four for Sir John Davies) as with the spacious Whitmanian idiom on display in the virtuoso efforts of The Far Field. This gathering of Roethke's works also includes several of his poems for children, and a generous sampling from his notebook writings, offering a glimpse of the poet at work with the raw materials of language and ideas.

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