The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Download or read book The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke written by Theodore Roethke and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1974-12-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source of American poetry.