Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur

Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur
Author: Robert Bagg
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613764588

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Wilbur's verse is esteemed for its fluency, wit, and optimism; his ingeniously rhymed translations of French drama by Molière, Racine, and Corneille remain the most often staged in the English-speaking world; his essays possess a scope and acumen equal to the era's best criticism. This biography examines the philosophical and visionary depth of his world-renowned poetry and traces achievements spanning seventy years, from political editorials about World War II to war poems written during his service to his theatrical career, including a contentious collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Wilbur's life has been mistakenly seen as blessed, lacking the drama of his troubled contemporaries. Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur corrects that view and explores how Wilbur's perceived "normality" both enhanced and limited his achievement. The authors augment the life story with details gleaned from access to his unpublished journals, family archives, candid interviews they conducted with Wilbur and his wife, Charlee, and his correspondence with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, James Merrill, and others.

Anterooms

Anterooms
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2010
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780547358116

Celebrates the human condition through reflections on nature and love, while a series of translations bring other authors' poems and riddles into a new light.

Mayflies

Mayflies
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Waywiser Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN: 9781904130116

In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later, he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening years, together with new translations of Moliere (from Amphitryon) and Dante. These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur's stature as one of our greatest living masters of verse.

Things of this World

Things of this World
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1956
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

More Money than God

More Money than God
Author: Richard Michelson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2015-02-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0822980428

How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beautiful, full of suffering, and balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin? With humor, anger and great tenderness, Richard Michelson's poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political, and the connections between history and memory. Growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust, in a Brooklyn neighborhood consumed with racial strife, Michelson's experiences were far from ordinary, yet they remain too much a part of the greater circle of poverty and violence to be dismissed as merely private concerns, safely past. It is Michelson's sense of humor and acute awareness of Jewish history, with its ancient emphasis on the fundamental worth of human existence that makes this accessible book, finally, celebratory and life-affirming.

The Mind-reader

The Mind-reader
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 67
Release: 1976
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780156598057

Collected Poems 1943-2004

Collected Poems 1943-2004
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2006
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780156030793

This comprehensive collection presents new and never published poems by Richard Wilbur, author of 17 poetry collections, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations. Includes "In a Trackless Woods" and "The Reader", which are CCSS Curriculum Recommended texts.

The Disappearing Alphabet

The Disappearing Alphabet
Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547538774

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and witty subtleties, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.

Nothing by Design

Nothing by Design
Author: Mary Jo Salter
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0385349807

A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets. The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.