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Americana
By John Updike
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Published on Apr 25, 2012 | 112 Pages
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Published on Apr 25, 2012 | 112 Pages
John Updike’s first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length.
The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet’s life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long “Song of Myself,” daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all.
The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet’s life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long “Song of Myself,” daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all.
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John Updike
JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
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