num_pages: 336
description: Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry. Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books published since then, a sampling of his renowned translations of haiku, and a generous number of previously unpublished new poems, this latest collection by poet and translator Lucien Stryk is evidence of the popular and critical acclaim for an important contributor to twentieth-century letters. Stryk’s work offers an intimate autobiography, at the same time giving a strong sense of the nature of our age, its ups and downs, despairs and promises, recorded with the permanence that only fine poetry can assure. Writing in Contemporary American Poetry , A. Poulin, Jr. said, “The moral grandeur of Stryk’s poetry emerges specifically from his ability to reveal, to accept, and to forgive … even the darker edges of human experience, because to do so is to awaken to, and to be fully aware of, our own most profound humanity … that is akin to Whitman’s assertion nothing human is alien to me.” In And Still Birds Sing , Stryk’s life’s work in poetry states and restates that assertion, making it his own.
language: English
title: And Still Birds Sing: New and Collected Poems
titlecomplete: And Still Birds Sing: New and Collected Poems
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Swallow Press