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Americana : And Other Poems by John Updike (2001, Hardcover)
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AMERICANA: AND OTHER POEMSby: John Updike EXCELLENT+ CONDITION - HARDCOVER w/ DUST JACKET - 1ST EDITION“Library Binding” - Item Pictured is the One You WILL Receive! No Markings or folds on pages (except library markings) About the Book: Title: Americana: And Other Poems Author: John Updike Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Special Attributes: First Edition Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket Copyright: 2001 Pages: 95 ISBN: 0375412549 Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.25 x 0.75 inches .
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375412549
ISBN-139780375412547
eBay Product ID (ePID)1876844
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmericana : and Other Poems
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2001
GenrePoetry
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-088571
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsAbout John Updike's Poetry "Is it conceivable that such a phenomenon also has produced a body of distinguished verse? It is conceivable, and such is in fact the case. [ Collected Poems includes] seventy poems hitherto uncollected, written over the last eight or so years and showing Updike at his deepest and best." -William H. Pritchard, Boston Globe "It is difficult to approach John Updike's Collected Poems as the work of a poet-indeed, one of the best poets writing today. Updike enjoys such pre-eminence as a novelist that his poetry could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible . . . It is a poetry of civility-in its epigrammatical lucidity; in the matters it treats of . . . and in its tone of vulgar bonhomie and good appetite." -Thomas M. Disch, Poetry, About John Updike's Poetry "Is it conceivable that such a phenomenon also has produced a body of distinguished verse? It is conceivable, and such is in fact the case. [Collected Poemsincludes] seventy poems hitherto uncollected, written over the last eight or so years and showing Updike at his deepest and best." -William H. Pritchard,Boston Globe "It is difficult to approach John Updike'sCollected Poemsas the work of a poet-indeed, one of the best poets writing today. Updike enjoys such pre-eminence as a novelist that his poetry could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible . . . It is a poetry of civility-in its epigrammatical lucidity; in the matters it treats of . . . and in its tone of vulgar bonhomie and good appetite." -Thomas M. Disch,Poetry, About John Updike's Poetry "Is it conceivable that such a phenomenon also has produced a body of distinguished verse? It is conceivable, and such is in fact the case. [Collected Poems includes] seventy poems hitherto uncollected, written over the last eight or so years and showing Updike at his deepest and best." -William H. Pritchard, Boston Globe "It is difficult to approach John Updike's Collected Poems as the work of a poet-indeed, one of the best poets writing today. Updike enjoys such pre-eminence as a novelist that his poetry could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible . . . It is a poetry of civility-in its epigrammatical lucidity; in the matters it treats of . . . and in its tone of vulgar bonhomie and good appetite." -Thomas M. Disch, Poetry
Dewey Decimal811.5/4
SynopsisJohn Updike's first collection of verse since hisCollected Poems, 1953-1993brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long "Song of Myself," daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all., John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long Song of Myself, daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4A78 2001
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