For You: Poetry

by Hayden Carruth

Book Overview

This book collects five long poems that have previously appeared, with one exception, only in magazines and limited editions. One critic has called them "virtually secret." Yet they are probably the heart of Carruth's poetic achievement, both technically and thematically. Rising from the experience of emotional illness and the asylum, the poems move at intervals and over a period of nearly fifty years toward a sustained, workable view of humanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811200167
• ISBN13: 9780811200165
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"