- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Anchor (Dec 10 1974)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385086016
- ISBN-13: 978-0385086011
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.6 x 20.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 218 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #245,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.
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This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words For The Wind, and The Far Field.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Kingdom of Stinks and Sighs,
By Ed Snyder (Fullerton, ca United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Paperback)
I love Roethke and I can't stop loving him. His words, phrases, rhythms, thoughts, feelings and meditations stick with me. I will go a year or two without reading his work, but he is still there shaping the way I see the world. His poetry occupies the same space in my mind as Brian Eno's transcendent work On Land. It's meditative, quiet, and joyful and yet, sweaty, ominous, and alarming, all at the same time.The Far Field (North American Sequence) incarnates this feeling for me. Roethke meditates on his own mortality (don't all poets?) and finds a vast encompassing love for life. A love not only for the "growing rose," but also, seemingly for the summer heat and the stench of dead buffalo, "their damp fur drying in the sun." He sees beauty in nature but also "redolent disorder" and he calls life "This ambush, this silence." I agree with him. Roethke proclaims a love for life which is similar to Nietzsche's concept of the Eternal Recurring. That is, he has learned to love life, the good and the evil, to such an extent that he would have it recur again and again, eternally. This kind of love is not a love for evil, rather it is a willingness to sit behind the window of one's pain and still look out and see the beauty. This takes great courage. Roethke's influences are obvious. What American poet could escape Whitman and his lineage, Thoreau, Henry Miller, etc.? I'm sure he read his fair share of Nietzsche. I also note, Roethke's style seems to have changed drastically towards the end of his life. I believe this was probably partly in reaction to the Beats. However, in my opinion he swallows the Beats whole and makes something new of them. Roethke's verse also periodically has the ring of Wallace Stevens, and sometimes Robert Frost. Some of his verses sound like bad seventies self-help schtick; "I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form," etc. I only go into these criticisms so I can make a larger point. Roethke's metaphors are sometimes, seemingly, larger than their implication, sometimes they are derivative, sometimes clunky. But, his work, for me, has an almost Biblical air to it. By this I mean his work resonates on a mythological level. His ideas are broad and go to the heart without ignoring the blood and stench of life. At the same time, yes, his ideas are broad, however, his details, while often being merely enumerative, are true. By this I mean, they come from a real eye roving across a real landscape. He is, at once, strange and familiar. I would hope that Academia would catch up with Roethke. It seems that he is being unfairly ignored.
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Roethkes Verse is Simply Mesmerizing..............,
By Margaret "fugirl" (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Paperback)
........how else can one describe the beautifully placed words of Theodore Roethke's poetry? I knew I was a Roethke fan from the day I first read "The Waking" and "My Papa's Waltz", and I'm now ever pleased that I picked up this complete collection of his poetry. Roethke's marvelous descriptions of what he is able to see and perceive has made him one of my favorite poets, rivaling my admiration for poets like Walt Whitman. His metaphors are stunning and original ("Orchids" will just carry you away) and his metered poems are technically perfect ("The Waking" is just music!). If you enjoy poetry, I urge you to introduce yourself or gain additional exposure to the brilliant, beautiful poetry of Theodore Roethke!
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A comprehensive collection,
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This review is from: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Paperback)
Roethke has been my favourite poet for 10 years. His simple, easy, beautiful style and witness to the natural things of this world, will appeal to people who enjoy the metaphysical things of life. Where leaves, trees, the sky, flowers, plants and every other facet of the natural world is highlighted in loving ways. This book is an extremely comprehensive collection of Ted's poetry.
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