Summary
A collection of twenty-six short poems pondering what the world would be like if any letters of the alphabet should disappear. Full description
Summary: |
A collection of twenty-six short poems pondering what the world would be like if any letters of the alphabet should disappear. |
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Physical Description: |
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
ISBN: |
0152014705 |
Author Notes: |
His first collection, The Beautiful Changes, was published in 1947. His other collections of poetry included The Mind-Reader and Anterooms. In 1957, he received the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for Things of This World. He received a second Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for New and Collected Poems. He became the second poet laureate of the United States in 1987-88 and received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2006. He also wrote and illustrated several children's books and wrote lyrics for opera and musical theater productions including Leonard Bernstein's Candide. He was a translator of poems and other works from the French, Spanish, and Russian, including the plays of Molière and Jean Racine. He was the co-recipient of the Bollingen Translation Prize in 1963. He died on October 14, 2017 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) |