Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

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Northwestern University Press, 1997 - 231 sivua
"A contemporary of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, Meredith was known from the beginning of his career as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. From his early, deeply personal poems to the later, less formal poems concerned with tolerance, civility, and shared values, Meredith's craft is marked by a thoughtfulness not often seen in poets of his, or successive, generations. He is the master of the poem that seems colloquial at first glance, but is in fact deliberately voiced, measured out, and shaped. His is a voice of unequaled honesty and clarity. This, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by Meredith from Love Letter from an Impossible Land, Ships and Other Figures, the Open Sea, and etc. Several new poems are included"--From back cover.

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A Tract
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Of Possessions in Winter
211
A Note about the Author
231
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William Morris Meredith, Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.

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