num_pages: 144
description: In the seventy-three poems collected here, Muriel Spark works in open forms as well as villanelles, rondels, epigrams, and even the tour de force of a twenty-one page ballad. She also shows herself a master of unforgettable short poems. Before attaining fame as a novelist (Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Muriel Spark was already an acclaimed poet. The "power and control" of her poetry, as Publishers Weekly remarked, "is almost startling." With the vitality and wit typical of all her work, Dame Muriel never stopped writing poems, which frequently appeared in The New Yorker. As with all her creations, the poems show Spark to be "astonishingly talented and truly inimitable" (The San Francisco Chronicle).
language: English
title: All the Poems of Muriel Spark
titlecomplete: All the Poems of Muriel Spark
genres: Female Authors, Poetry
ratings_count: 62
publisher: New Directions