Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith: Used

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Publication Date
1997-05-01
Pages
231
ISBN
9780810150713
Book Title
Effort at Speech : New and Selected Poems
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
1997
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
William Meredith
Genre
Poetry
Topic
General, American / General
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Width
5.6 in
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810150719
ISBN-13
9780810150713
eBay Product ID (ePID)
868774

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Book Title
Effort at Speech : New and Selected Poems
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Poetry
Author
William Meredith
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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97-009679
Reviews
"When you finish this book by Meredith, you have a strong sense of the man who wrote it, of a life well-lived." -- Poetry, "For the past 45 years [Meredith] has looked generously and hard at our common human world. . . . William Meredith's work suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." -- New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Table Of Content
Foreword From Love Letter from an Impossible Land (1944) A Kodiak Poem In Memoriam Stratton Christensen Navy Field Myself, Rousseau, and a Few Others A Metaphysical Sonnet Winter Song Quartet in F Major Notes for an Elegy June: Dutch Harbor For Air Heroes Airman''s Virtue Ten-Day Leave From Ships and Other Figures (1948) Envoi Carrier Transport Battlewagon ''Do Not Embrace Your Mind''s New Negro Friend'' A Birthday Exercise Perhaps the Best Time In a Copy of Yeats'' Poems From The Open Sea and Other Poems (1958) A Major Work In Memory of Donald A. Stauffer The Open Sea Sonnet on Rare Animals Notre Dame de Cartres Starlight On Falling Asleep by Firelight The Illiterate Sunrise with Crows A View of the Brooklyn Bridge Godchildren Miniature An Account of a Visit to Hawaii The Fishvendor Original Aversions The Fear of Beasts The Chinese Banyan Bachelor Homage to a Rake-Hell Two Japanese Poems Pastoral Thoughts on One''s Head (IN PLASTER, WITH A BRONZE WASH) Rus in Urbe Letter from Mexico (VERA CRUZ, 10 FEBRUARY, 186-) A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall From The Wreck of the Thresher (1963) The Wrech of the Thresher (LOST AT SEA, APRIL 10, 1963) Orpheus On Falling Asleep to Birdsong For His Father Roots An Old Field Mowed for Appearances'' Sake An Assent to Wildflowers For Guillaume Apollinaire Five Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (TRANSLATIONS) Fables about Error The Couple Overhead The Ballet Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man About Poetry The Preponderance An Old Photograph of Strangers Consequences From Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems (1970) Winter Verse for His Sister Waking Dream about a Lost Child Fledglings Walter Jenks'' Bath Poem about Morning Effort at Speech Hydraulics About Opera Dalhousie Farm Whorls In Memory of Robert Frost Earth Walk Last Things From Hazard, the Painter (1975) Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline Hazard''s Optimism Music Wholesome Plitics Where He''s Staying Now Squire Hazard Walks Look at Me! Look at Me! His Plans for Old Age At the Natural History Museum Rhode Island The Ghosts of the House Nausea Nixon''s the One February 14 Winter: He Shapes Up From The Cheer (1980) The cheer Winter on the River Two Masks Unearthed in Bulgaria Freezing Recollection of Bellagio Country Stars Homage to Paul Mellon, I. M. Pei, Their Gallery, and Washington City On Jenkins'' Hill A Firescreen at Mount Vernon A Mild-Spoken Citizen Finally Writes to the White House Accidents of Birth At the Confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado Poem The Seasons'' Difference For Two Lovers in the Year 2075 in the Canadian Woods Memoirs Give and Take Parents My Mother''s Life Ideogram Grievances Here and There Remembering Robert Lowell Dreams of Suicide In Loving Memory of the Late Author of Dream Songs John and Anne Dying Away The Revenant Crossing Over Not Both REM Sleep Of Kindness Examples of Created Systems From Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (1987) The American Living Room: A Tract The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi The Three Sorts of Violence Among Ourselves In the Rif Mountains Tree Marriage Talking Back (To W. H. Auden) A Couple of Trees What I Remember the Writers Telling Me When I Was Young New Poems Of Possessions, in Winter His Students At the Prado Journal Entry (With the Udalls, June 1968) Jouranl Entry (April 1969, Villa Serbelloni) A Vision of Good Secrets The Quarrel ''In the Middle of the Long Friendship'' Poem to Me Housed (A Report on a Visiting Dog) English Accounts Grace A Note about the Author
Synopsis
Winner, 1997 National Book Award for Poetry A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times., A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times.
LC Classification Number
PS3525.E588E37 1997

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