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Earth walk: New and selected poems / William Meredith

William Meredith

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Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

William Meredith

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The New York Times Book Review wrote that William Meredith's poetry "suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." This collection, a summing up of Meredith's best writing over several decades, won the National Book Award, and is the sort of book readers will return to again and again for its considerable virtues: attention to craft, the ring of truth, and clarity in a world of muddle. Here's one favorite poem, titled "A Major Work": "Poems are hard to read / Pictures are hard to see / Music is hard to hear / And people are hard to love / But whether from brute need / Or divine energy / At last mind eye and ear / and the great sloth heart will move."

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William Meredith

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Poems Are Hard to Read (Poets on Poetry)

William Meredith

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Gathers together a half-century of prose pieces written by this esteemed poet

Crossing Over

William Meredith

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The Cheer

William Meredith

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

From The Inside Flap: 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is William Meredith's first full-length collection of new lyrics since THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER in 1964. Here, in poen after poem, he displays the artistry and the deep commitment to life that is the hallmark of his work and that reviewers of his last book, HAZARD, THE PAINTER, noted with special joy: "Reading William Meredith makes me want to dance on the ceiling" (William Maxwell), "One feels that every word that should be there is and that no extra words have been allowed" (Los Angeles Times), "His Language is often as lean as Lowell's and as rhythmically adrroit as Berryman's" (The Bew York Times Book Review); "Everywhere Meredith's tact id bust disguising his famous skill" (The Hudson Review).

The Cheer

William Meredith

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

From The Inside Flap: 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is William Meredith's first full-length collection of new lyrics since THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER in 1964. Here, in poen after poem, he displays the artistry and the deep commitment to life that is the hallmark of his work and that reviewers of his last book, HAZARD, THE PAINTER, noted with special joy: "Reading William Meredith makes me want to dance on the ceiling" (William Maxwell), "One feels that every word that should be there is and that no extra words have been allowed" (Los Angeles Times), "His Language is often as lean as Lowell's and as rhythmically adrroit as Berryman's" (The Bew York Times Book Review); "Everywhere Meredith's tact id bust disguising his famous skill" (The Hudson Review).