Antarctic Traveller: Poems

by Katha Pollitt and Katha Politt

Book Overview

The first book Pollitt published was a collection of poetry called Antarctic Traveler (Knopf, 1982), which received much critical acclaim, including the National Book Critics Circle Award (1983). This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394520041
• ISBN13: 9780394520049
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Turning 30

This is an undiscovered gem, cherished by those who have read it. That Katha Politt no longer publishes poems and devotes herself to writing columns for the Nation is a great tragedy. Her columns are inevitably inconsistent and often predictable. Her poetry is extraordinary and vibrant, although perhaps not to the taste of the same people who admire her column. My favorite poem might be Turning Thirty: Home, you write feverishly in all five notebooks at once, then faint into bed dazed with ambition and too many cigarettes...... Oh, what were you doing, why weren't you paying attention that piercing blue day, not a cloud in the sky, when suddenly choices ceased to mean infinite possibilities and became instead deciding what to do without ..... (forgive the typography)

A delight

This is a collection of poems that are both accessible and intelligent. It's hard to imagine a literate reader who would not find a great deal to admire and enjoy here.