Verse: The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures; Telephone Poles and other poems
de John Updike
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Verse by John Updike
The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures; Telephone Poles and other poems
Crest Book 1st printing Feb 1965
Paperback
4.25 x 7.1 inches, 175 pages
Updike published eight volumes of poetry over his career, including his first book The Carpentered Hen (1958), and one of his last, the posthumous Endpoint (2009). The New Yorker published excerpts of Endpoint in its March 16, 2009 issue. Much of Updike's poetical output was recollected in Knopf's Collected Poems (1993). He wrote that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form." The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity". His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics", its "wit and precision", and for its depiction of topics familiar to American readers.
British poet Gavin Ewart praised Updike for the metaphysical quality of his poetry and for his ability "to make the ordinary seem strange", and called him one of the few modern novelists capable of writing good poetry. Reading Endpoint aloud, the critic Charles McGrath claimed that he found "another, deeper music" in Updike's poetry, finding that Updike's wordplay "smooths and elides itself" and has many subtle "sound effects". John Keenan, who praised the collection Endpoint as "beautiful and poignant", noted that his poetry's engagement with "the everyday world in a technically accomplished manner seems to count against him".
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- Librería
- Worldwide Collectibles (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0123202406
- Título
- Verse
- Autor
- John Updike
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good- condition - cover surface wear
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Crest Book
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Páginas
- 175
- Tamaño
- 4.25 x 7.1 inches
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Non-fiction, Poetry
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- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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