Mayflies: New Poems and Translations Hardcover - 2000
by Wilbur, Richard
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- Title Mayflies: New Poems and Translations
- Author Wilbur, Richard
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt, New York
- Date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # 100691
- ISBN 9780151004690 / 0151004692
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.61 x 0.48 in (20.90 x 14.25 x 1.22 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045452
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.52
Summary
In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later, he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening years, together with new translations of Molière (from Amphitryon) and Dante. These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur's stature as one of our greatest living masters of verse.
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The warping night air having brought the boom Of and owl's voice into her darkened room, We tell the wakened child that all she heard Was an odd question from a forest bird, Asking of us, if rightly listened to, "Who cooks for you?" and then "Who cooks for you?"