Late Fire, Late Snow: New and Uncollected Poems

by Robert Francis

Book Overview

The poems offered here were gathered from what Robert Francis wrote in the last decade of his life and from earlier work not available either in his seven previous books or his Collected Poems, 1936-1976. While aging is a recurring theme, the later poems converse with the earlier ones in an engaging mixture of subject and tone, mingling the pastoral with the political, the contemplative with the Chaplinesque. Recipient of the Shelly Memorial Award,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238140
• ISBN13: 9780870238147
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"