Description
A richly evocative collection of poems that turns from the natural world—its seasons, animals, mountains, and vanishing landscapes—to the unsettled terrain of the human self. Through dreamlike dispatches, meditations on fear and memory, and a sweeping sequence on American westward expansion, the poems confront both personal estrangement and the violence inflicted on the land. Moving between intricate traditional forms and spare, incantatory lyrics, the collection captures a poet discovering a freer, more searching voice. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, it stands as a significant work of American poetry, resonant with themes of mortality, ecological loss, history, and spiritual uncertainty.
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paperback
Atheneum
Published Jan 1, 1971
ISBN: 9780689103438
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First Published
1970
Language
eng
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