{"product_id":"collected-poems-1953-1994-hardback-9780268022686","title":"Collected Poems; 1953-1994 (Hardback) 9780268022686","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e1953-1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErnest Sandeen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780268022686\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 September 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Later Day, Another Year:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I love the unforced wildness, the fusion of unsentimental sweetness of being human—and mortal—rendered in pristine, musical style. What to Ernest Sandeen must be an essential act of making and understanding has become for the rest of us a great gift.\" —Michael Ryan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Later Day, Another Year\u003c\/i\u003e is a book wonderfully 'vulnerable to new knowledge,' by as fine a poet as America has had to offer, one who distinguishes himself from almost every other I can think of by the beauty of his faithful capacity for making the fine essential discriminations betweeen dreams \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e the world.\" —John Engels\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCan These Bones Live?:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The themes of [Sandeen's] poems are often dark: lost youth, lost chances, lost friends. . . . But in the darkness, Sandeen's joy still shines through, a joy at having lived long enough and well enough to find in each additional day a welcome new friend and in death at last an old friend long-expected.\" —\u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I find \u003ci\u003eCan These Bones Live? \u003c\/i\u003ea compelling, moving book. The poems . . . are written from necessity and out of a lifetime's experience. In more than one sense they are a lesson and an inspiration.\" —Jeremy Hooker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\". . . it's rare to find a book of poetry that so powerfully combines wisdom and pleasure.\" —John Frederick Nims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The poems of Ernest Sandeen among other things record not only a writing life but a life \u003ci\u003ein writing\u003c\/i\u003e: a history of the hours when reflection turns to discovery, and observation finds its fulfillment in the rhythms of a sentence, the weaving of consonants through a line, in pursuit of a mystery. Few poets have been blessed with the gift to sustain that process of meditation, composing, and questioning so consistently, and for so long, in works that are clear-eyed, passionate, and precise.\" —Robert Pinsky, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This comprehensive collection gathered from the late English professor's six published volumes showcases the well-loved poet at his musical, reflective best.\" - \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his long tenure in the English department of the University of Notre Dame, Ernest 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: \u003ci\u003eAntennas of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \u003ci\u003eChildren and Older Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eLike Any Road Anywhere\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems: 1953-1977\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), \u003ci\u003eA Later Day, Another Year\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), and \u003ci\u003eCan These Bones Live?\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1953-1994\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive collection, representing the best of Sandeen's previous six volumes—the poems he wished to preserve. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1953\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1994\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520532705560,"sku":"9780268022686","price":56.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/collected-poems-1953-1994-hardback-9780268022686","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}