![]() ![]() poet laureate who now lives in Madrid, these Collected Poems will confirm his place in the canon as they invite a new generation of readers into his subtle, wise, surreal, and witty world.Įdward Hirsch, like Strand a MacArthur fellow published by Knopf, hasn’t won a Pulitzer, but he puts himself in the reckoning with Gabriel: A Poem. The 1999 winner, MacArthur fellow Mark Strand, receives the “collected” treatment to honor a long, celebrated life in poetry. Ted Kooser won the award in 2005 for Delights and Shadows, and the quintessentially Midwestern poet ends his fans’ nearly decadelong wait for a follow-up with Splitting an Order. With A Progressive Education, master translator and 1970 winner Richard Howard reflects on his own youth in Cleveland through the voices of delightfully precocious, ironic children who are as sophisticated as any characters in poetry. “Watchfulness” is the buzzword surrounding this one, and it seems as great a place as any to start the 2015 reading year. ![]() One Thousand Things Worth Knowing: Poems is another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Paul Muldoon, 2003 winner and poetry editor at the New Yorker. ![]() The 1993 winner, Louise Glück, follows Poems 1962–2012 with a captivating collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, which takes readers on an adventure into the unknown through an array of dreamlike portals. ![]()
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