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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Louis Simpson
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While living in France he published his first book of poems, The Arrivistes , for which the poet and critic Randall Jarrell wrote of Simpson, "He is a surprisingly live poet: as you read him you forget for a moment that we are the ancient." Louis Simpson went on to publish more than eighteen books of original poetry, including Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems ; Struggling Times ; The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 , which was a finalist for both the National Book Award in Poetry and the Griffin International Poetry Prize; Nombres et poussière; There You Are ; In the Room We Share ; Collected Poems ; People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-83 ; The Best Hour of the Night ; Caviare at the Funeral ; Armidale ; Searching for the Ox ; Adventures of the Letter I ; and Selected Poems Simpson is also the author of a memoir, The King My Father's Wreck , and published a volume entitled Selected Prose in 1989. His Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology won the 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Among his many other honors are the Prix de Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University.

Louis Simpson lived for many years in Setauket, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, near Stony Brook. He died on September 14, 2012.
Language
English
Pages
378
Format
Paperback
Release
October 01, 1990
ISBN 13
9781569249192

Collected Poems

Louis Simpson
0/5 ( ratings)
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While living in France he published his first book of poems, The Arrivistes , for which the poet and critic Randall Jarrell wrote of Simpson, "He is a surprisingly live poet: as you read him you forget for a moment that we are the ancient." Louis Simpson went on to publish more than eighteen books of original poetry, including Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems ; Struggling Times ; The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 , which was a finalist for both the National Book Award in Poetry and the Griffin International Poetry Prize; Nombres et poussière; There You Are ; In the Room We Share ; Collected Poems ; People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-83 ; The Best Hour of the Night ; Caviare at the Funeral ; Armidale ; Searching for the Ox ; Adventures of the Letter I ; and Selected Poems Simpson is also the author of a memoir, The King My Father's Wreck , and published a volume entitled Selected Prose in 1989. His Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology won the 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Among his many other honors are the Prix de Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University.

Louis Simpson lived for many years in Setauket, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, near Stony Brook. He died on September 14, 2012.
Language
English
Pages
378
Format
Paperback
Release
October 01, 1990
ISBN 13
9781569249192

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