ERNEST SANDEEN COLLECTED POEMS 1953-1994 2001 1st ED DECADES AUTHOR’S FAVORITES

Description: COLLECTED POEMS 1953-1994 ERNEST SANDEEN 2001 1st ED 320 PAGES NOTRE DAME PRESS This PB is in VG+ condition. This book is becoming hard to find. Covers nice, only small corner bumps. Spine straight & strong with one crease in center. All interior pages tightly intact, clean, unmarked and remain white on acid free paper. The only thing that detracts from this book in my opinion is how much its former owner loved it by marking their favorite poems. Unfortunately, this owner broke a golden rule of bibliophiles—he or she turned down page corners to mark instead of using small slips of paper. I have turned them all up, but this is on about 7 pages, which means 14 pages affected because includes front and back of each page. I have flattened book some since these photos were taken but they definitely show from top view of book. Interior pages appear more darkly than they are because I didn’t want to open pages and crease spine. Collected Poems 1953-1994 is a comprehensive collection, representing the best of Sandeen's previous six volumes—the poems he wished to preserve. During his long tenure in the English department of the University of Notre Dame, Sandeen published widely. His first published poem, "Parked Car," appeared in the New Yorker in 1938. After that, his poems appeared in major reviews, journals and magazines. They were also collected in six volumes: Antennas of Silence (1953), Children and Older Strangers (1962), Like Any Road Anywhere (1976), Collected Poems: 1953-1977 (1977), A Later Day, Another Year (1989), and Can These Bones Live? (1994). A contemporary of well-known poets such as W. H. Auden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Bly, Sandeen’s first literary influence was Carl Sandburg, with whom he shared the hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. Taken together, the poems in this new and augmented volume demonstrate what many discerning readers have always known—that Ernest Sandeen was one of the best poets of his generation, who also deeply influenced many contemporary poets. On the occasion of Sandeen’s death in 1997, former Poet Laureate Robert Hass said in an interview, “what I love about [Sandeen’s] poetry is the way it has a sort of sweet gravity to it that makes you feel that the poet was a genuinely wise man. You feel that in his craft as much as in anything else, that the poem says what it needs to say, so that not needing to show off is a form of beauty. There is a kind of seriousness and grace.” Collected Poems 1953–1994 offers personal and powerful insight into life’s greatest triumphs and tragedies. Meditating on topics such as old age, love and eros, mortality, politics, society, religious faith, and birth, Sandeen delves into the ordinary, inevitable, incomprehensible facts of life. Readers who have followed Sandeen’s work over the decades will be pleased to find his poems once again in print. New readers will discover a poet who cannot fail to delight them. Shipped via USPS Media Mail

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