num_pages: 272
description: This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind , and The Far Field .These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source of American poetry.
language: English
title: The Collected Poems
titlecomplete: The Collected Poems
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Nature, The United States Of America, American, College, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 5007
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Anchor Books