Selected Poems 1956-1986

By Anne Stevenson

Book Overview

Anne Stevenson is one of the leading women poets in England. Her poetry is unusual for its great range of mood and subject matter. This is a major selection from all of her past collections, including The Fiction-Makers , a Poetry Book Society Choice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192820621
• ISBN13: 9780192820624
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Neglected master

I first came across Stevenson's poetry in Robert Richmond's THE DIRECTION IN POETRY and just recently came across this volume. Her poetry is direct and gets under the skin of both the subject and the reader. I hate to see her relegated to the level of a "neglected master." There's something vaguely insulting about that: she wrote brilliantly about Sylvia Plath and AS's own work is consistently focused and carefully written. If you are reading this, you already know that, and it's worth reading her selected works together under one cover.