Collected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis Simpson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, New York City, World War II, Jamaica or Jamaicans, Soldiers, Suburban life
At the head of this wonderful book's table of contents, Louis Simpson tells the reader, “These are not all my poems—they are the poems I would like to be remembered by.” Fortunately, however, Simpson has been more generous here in selecting from his early work than he was in his previous retrospective collections, Selected Poems (1965) and People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-1983 (1983). Collected Poems contains 179 poems that not only provide ample evidence of the poet's changing concerns and ways of doing things but also give more pleasure, poem by poem,...
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