Figurehead & other poems
By: by John Hollander.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Other titles: Figurehead; Figurehead and other poems
Description: One of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings - here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper.

By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader. He is a modern master.