Next Day: New and Selected Poems

By: Zarin, Cynthia

Book Overview

A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth, and moral vision

Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications, this volume is a tour through Zarin's five exquisitely made collections, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth, published in 1989. Zarin, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop, allows the reader to experience human truths through a poem's shape and music, bodied forth through intimate images--the turn in the stair, a snow globe, naked birch branches, a vase of flowers--and a propulsive syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce, from her own consciousness--shaping landscapes of New York, Cape Cod, and Rome, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation, her subject matter encompasses all of a woman's life, with passion--its risks, satisfactions, and shattering immediacy--her first and truest subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593536150
• ISBN13: 9780593536155
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"