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DESCRIPTION:Collected Poems\n\npublished by Alfred A Knopf\n\nMarie Ponsot's Collected 
 Poems is the stunning lifework of the prizewinning poet, gathered in one 
 volume: the world she has made of life's fire for sixty years. The present 
 celebratory volume covers nearly all of her published work, from True Minds 
 (1956), which was number five in the famous City Lights Pocket Poets 
 series, through the 2009 Easy, her most recent collection; it also includes 
 some new work, written in the years since. Here is the lyrical joy, the 
 full range of Ponsot's gift for constructing the pleasures and pains of a 
 riddle that the music and wit of her language solve just in the nick of 
 time, in the "hand-span skill" that is the poem. In examining the powerful 
 life of women, her poetry is as practical as it is profound. "Go to a 
 wedding / as to a funeral," she advises us. "Bury the loss." (And adds: 
 “Go to a funeral / as to a wedding: / marry the loss.”) Notable in this 
 collection is the astonishing accomplishment of Ponsot’s sonnets: the 
 traditional form in varieties we’ve never seen in one book before. Open 
 these pages anywhere to experience “language as the primitive dialect of 
 our human race,” as she has described it—to gradually enter a state 
 that is “what poetry hopes of us and for us: enraptured 
 attention.”\n\nMARIE PONSOT, the winner of Poetry magazine’s Ruth Lilly 
 Prize for lifetime achievement and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society 
 of America, was born in 1921. She is the author of six previous 
 collections, including The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book 
 Critics Circle Award for poetry. A professor emerita of English at Queens 
 College, CUNY, she also taught at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd 
 Street Y, the New School University, and Beijing University. Ponsot is a 
 chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in New York City.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790902.php
SUMMARY:Marie Ponsot: Collected Poems
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790902.php
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