
Living Things
Collected Poems
Anne Porter(Author)
Steerforth Press
Published on 10. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-58195-216-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Royalton
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58195-216-2 (9781581952162)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Anne Porter
An Altogether Different Language
Book
06/1998
Zoland Books
€35.71
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Person
Anne Porter is the widow of artist Fairfield Porter. They raised five children together and she often served as the subject of his drawings and paintings. Though she has written poetry throughout her lifetime, she did not seek to publish her works until long after her husband’s death. Her first collection of poems, An Altogether Different Language, was a 1994 National Book Award Finalist.