Selected Poems of William Bronk

William Bronk

They are poems I would like to have written, which I say without envy, as one does in the face of transient perfection.

Hayden Carruth, New York Times Book Review

Selected Poems of William Bronk

Poetry by William Bronk

In 1982 William Bronk won the American Book Award for his book Life Supports: New & Collected Poems. Since then, he has written seven additional books, and Sagetrieb has devoted an entire issue to his work. Bronk is unquestionably a major poet––utterly original, uncompromisingly abstract in content, and deeply sensuous in form. Michael Heller, in The New York Times Book Review, said Bronk’s poetry is “singularly persistent in its own investigation of how our deepest truths are those which are most unsayable.” This volume spans Bronk’s entire career, from his first book Light and Dark, to his most recent Some Words and The Mild Day (Talisman), which the Village Voice praised as “offering epigrammatic style, philosophical reverie, and haiku-like concision.” Selected Poems is an indispensible collection, containing the most compelling and the most popular of Bronk’s eloquent poems.

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Paperback(published Oct, 01 1995)

ISBN
9780811213141
Price US
15.95
Page Count
96
Portrait of William Bronk

William Bronk

20th century American poet

They are poems I would like to have written, which I say without envy, as one does in the face of transient perfection.

Hayden Carruth, New York Times Book Review