Telephone Poles and Other Poems by John Updike (1963, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394404572

ISBN-139780394404578

eBay Product ID (ePID)386236

Product Key Features

Book TitleTelephone Poles and Other Poems

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, American / General

Publication Year1963

GenrePoetry

AuthorJohn Updike

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisWHEN, five years and five books of fiction ago, THE CARPENTERED HEN, John Updike's first collection of verse, was published, Phyllis McGinley wrote: "I have been happily reading Mr. Updike in The New Yorker for some time and am happy, now, to own him collected. When he first appeared in that magazine, I was so elated to see a new name in light verse that I felt like crying with the Ancient Mariner 'A Sail, A Sail!' His is what poetry of this sort exactly out to be--playful but elegant, sharp-eyed, witty." In the Saturday Review , David McCord wrote: "Furthermore, he is a graceful border-crosser (light verse to poem) as Auden has been; as Betjeman and McGinley frequently are." This second collection is equally divided between poems that, in their verbal jugglery and humorous bias, seem to qualify as "light" and poems that, one way or other, cross the problematic border into the general realm of poetry. The distinction cannot be clear-cut. The poet is consistently concerned with Man's cosmic embarrassment, and the same vision illuminates the creatures of "The High Hearts" and "Seagulls." Science and religion, so frequently and variously invoked, frame a single paradox, the paradox of the mundaâ‰ and each poem, whether inspired by an antic headline or a suburban landscape, rejoices in the elusive surface of created things.