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Collected Poems of Marie Ponsot Paperback – June 5, 2018

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Now in paperback, the stunning lifework of this beloved prize-winning poet, gathered in one volume, covering sixty years of poetry, from 1956 to 2016.

This celebratory volume covers nearly all of Marie Ponsot's published work, from True Minds (published in 1956 as number five in the famous Pocket Poets series from City Lights press) through Easy (2009), her most recent collection; and it also includes some work written in the years since. Here is the lyrical joy, the full range of Ponsot's gift for constructing the pleasures and pains of a riddle that the music and wit of her language solve just in the nick of time, in the "hand-span skill" that is the poem. Notable in this collection is the astonishing accomplishment of Ponsot's sonnets: the traditional form in varieties we've never seen in one book before. Open these pages anywhere to experience "language as the primitive dialect of our human race," as she has described it--to gratefully enter a state that is "what poetry hopes of us and for us: enraptured attention."

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“A treasure trove . . . Ponsot is masterful with received forms—there are sonnets, sestinas and villanelles that are nothing short of gymnastic in their execution.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, Los Angeles Times

"Sixty years of wondrous verse from this award-winning but curiously underappreciated poet. Open to any page and you'll stumble on lines you'll never forget: 'The meanest mistake / has a point to make.'" —Dotun Akintoye, Oprah.com

"Cements her reputation as a major American poet." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"We read such poets because we want to know how a poetic intelligence inhabits the world—or invents it." —William Logan, The New York Times Book Review

"[Ponsot] holds the world to be good, to be glorious, and her poems help us attend to the miracle of consciousness and the startling nature of sensory experience." —Anthony Domestico, Commonweal

About the Author

MARIE PONSOT, the winner of Poetry magazine's Ruth Lily Prize for lifetime achievement, and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was born in 1921. She is the author of six previous collections, including The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. A professor emerita of English at Queens College, CUNY, she also taught at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, the New School University, and Beijing University. Ponsot, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2014, lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; Reprint edition (June 5, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101947691
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101947692
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches

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L. A. Ciraolo

GREAT AMERICAN POET

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020

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Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Stevens, . . . Add Marie Ponsot to your bookshelf after you read this like a novel from beginning to end. Form, language, wit, pathos, beauty. She is an impressionist painter with words that spring true.

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This is a wonderful compilation of peotry

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016

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This is a wonderful compilation of peotry. Marie Ponsot's words so touched me and stirred my emotions that at times made me cry. A life of words from her daily activities of caring for her children to love. I found such heart in her words. Anyone who loves poetry will find a poem for that moment in time when your own words escape you. I could not put it down!

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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017

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A must have collection, a lifetimes work of art.

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THE POETRY ITSELF WAS WONDERFUL

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020

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Nice poems and if the book was delivered in better condition I would have given this book a five star rating.

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017

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The best poetry book I own

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022

Poetry is about language, first and foremost, but the best poetry somehow manages to capture the passion, the emotion, the love and lust and joy and sorrow, of the poet, and to transfer those feelings immediately to us upon reading—like an incantation, a magic spell. It does this not through emotional manipulation, like a crappy TV show that plays gloomy music when we’re meant to feel sad, but by word choice, by phrasing, by meter and rhyme (or not rhyme), by somehow having your understanding of the poem be enhanced with each and every successive reading. The best poems manage to access the sheathed tuning fork of my soul and make it ring out. The best poets do this years, decades, centuries after they are no longer alive. It is pure literary magic. And Marie Ponsot is nothing less than a sorceress.

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Great gift for someone who loves poetry

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2019

It was a gift and the person I gave it to loved it.

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