Author : Janet Lewis
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis by : Janet Lewis
Download or read book The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis written by Janet Lewis and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors. Critics as disparate as Kenneth Rexroth, Timothy Steele, Theodore Roethke, Larry McMurtry, N. Scott Momaday, and Dana Gioia have sung the praises of her work over the decades. Her career as a poet was remarkable not only for its longevity but also for the fact that even well into her tenth decade she wrote poems that stand with her very best work. Characterized by the vigor and sharpness of her images and the understated lyricism that permeates her rhythmic lines, The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis is a survey of modern poetry unto itself.