Mayflies (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Wilbur
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Snakes, Spiders, Nature, Poetry or poets, Fear, Birds, Animals, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Weaving or weavers, Owls
Mayflies is a brief book of new poems and translations by the distinguished American poet Richard Wilbur. Though nearing eighty at the time Mayflies was published, Wilbur demonstrates in this volume that his poetic skills and very perceptive eye are still sharp. Wilbur also retains his ear for the absolutely appropriate word and the precise rhyme. The poems are, for the most part, short lyrics that meditate upon a scene in nature or comment wittily on the glories of the natural world and humanity’s incomplete perception of it. The poems are beautifully structured, full...
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