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Janet Lewis - Selected Poems of Janet Lewis - 9780804010238 - V9780804010238
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Selected Poems of Janet Lewis

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Description for Selected Poems of Janet Lewis Hardback. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJ; DCF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 458. Weight in Grams: 318.

Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors.
Critics as disparate as Kenneth Rexroth, Timothy Steele, Theodore Roethke, Larry McMurtry, N. Scott Momaday, and Dana Gioia have sung the praises of her work over the decades. Her career as a poet was remarkable not ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804010238
SKU
V9780804010238
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Janet Lewis
Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as “some of the 20th century’s most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature.” Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University ... Read more

Reviews for Selected Poems of Janet Lewis
“Selected by Barth, who has also edited Winters, this welcome volume offers a new look at a careful poet with an unusually long career.… Readers of Richard Wilbur, Louise Bogan or Robert Pinsky will likely want to go out of their way to track Lewis's work down—thanks to this edition, they may not have to.”
Publishers Weekly

Goodreads reviews for Selected Poems of Janet Lewis


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