AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Four Incarnations: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1991 by Robert Sward ISBN: 0-918273-90-0 Publisher: Coffee House Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Robert Sward...one of my first favorite poets when I began
Comment: ROBERT SWARD's "Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991," Coffee House Press. By Lyn Lifshin _____________

Robert Sward was one of my first favorite poets when I began reading contemporary poetry in the late 1960s. After being immersed in 16th and 17th century poetry, it felt like first seeing the world in color when, catapulted out of the university atmosphere I'd been in, I'd hang out in libraries, in their poetry sections. Almost everything in KISSING THE DANCER & OTHER POEMS, my first taste of Sward, became and has stayed a favorite poem: Uncle Dog, The Poet At 9; The Kite; Marriage; In Cities; People Glow; A Letter to His Psychiatrist; I Have Just Bought a House; Advertisements; Mothers-in-Law; Night Gown, Wife's Gown; Elm Trees; Pet Shop; All For A Day; New Hampshire, September...

The startling, perfect lines, the twists, the playfulness, the magical use of speech rhythms and colloquial speech make Sward a writer I never tire of, always find delightful. His delight in what is always colored with what can be lost, a sense of what has been lost, adds to the poignancy, the caught moment or memory of a distant caught moment. I'm so glad he's back with this delicious collection. Re-reading "FOUR INCARNATIONS," I'm reminded again how terribly much I've missed reading some of them, how they touch me as they did when I first read them and later re read them. The new work sparkles, dances, moves, is as precise, as full of surprises, humor, pathos as the earlier poems.

I love Alpha The Dog; Clancy the Dog; 34 Poets Named Robert; On my Way to the Korean War; Personal Stress Assessment; Mr. Amnesia; For my Son, Michael; and For Gloria on Her 60th Birthday."

These are touching, zany, surreal, strong and, yes, sometimes goofy poems, all part of why Sward is still one of my current favorite poets.

--Lyn Lifshin, Niskayuna,NY, 1990