The Collected Poems of John Ciardi (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Ciardi
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Marriage, World War II, Immigration or emigration, War, Death or dying, Ambition, Bombs, Italy or Italians, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi is a very large volume that contains 450 poems, representing 62 percent of Ciardi’s poetic production but excluding his fifteen books of children’s poetry and his translation of The Divine Comedy. There is already a Selected Poems of John Ciardi (1984) in existence, but Edward M. Cifelli or the University of Arkansas Press has determined that there is a need for a larger collection of Ciardi’s poems, and Cifelli suggests that a complete poems is being contemplated. Ciardi died in 1986, so Cifelli has chosen the poems...
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