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  • Published: 15 March 2006
  • ISBN: 9781581952162
  • Imprint: Steerforth Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $35.00
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Living Things

Collected Poems




Living Things contains all the poems in Porter’s National Book Award Finalist collection, An Altogether Different Language, plus forty-four new works. David Shapiro writes in his foreword, “Anne Porter’s diction is as modest as that of William Carlos Williams or of a poet she nurtured as a houseguest for many years, James Schuyler. . . . She has the quality of paying attention to ultimate reality that Fairfield Porter, who painted her so often alone and with their five children, told me should be the conclusion of every sermon. . . . She is an American religious poet of stature who reminds us that the idea of the holy is still possible for us.” Living Things is a book for any lover of fine poetry, but will be particularly inspiring and meaningful to Christians whose faith is strong, and would make a beautiful gift.

  • Published: 15 March 2006
  • ISBN: 9781581952162
  • Imprint: Steerforth Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Living Things

"Her suave music and utter clarity are far removed from the fashions in poetry that have come and gone within her lifetime. Her work is timeless, or in Emily Dickinson's beautiful phrase, 'toward eternity.' " -- John Ashbery

"Anne Porter succeeds in doing what so many poets have wished to do, to say what is nearest and truest in a music and language that fits it with definiteness of light. These extremely intelligent, lyrical poems shake one's feelings and change one's thoughts." -- Kenneth Koch

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