Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #26)

by Anne Stevenson

Book Overview

On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life's work of a significant but under-recognized American poet. The Library of America is proud to publish Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems, edited by English Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in conjunction with the award. Stevenson was born in England of American parents in 1933,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530194
• ISBN13: 9781598530193
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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.