Product Description: This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.

A collection of poems by the twentieth-century American professor best known for his post-World War II writings reflects the spiritual and autobiographical themes of his works, his life-long search for wholeness, and his influence on his subsequent generation's poets and readers.

Product Description: The new Hammond World Atlas, Fourth Edition is completely updated. It features an exciting new map style with enhanced relief that makes topographic features leap off the page. It has a beautiful new cover design and compelling new thematic articles...read more

Product Description: "One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With Roethke's sudden, tragic death in 1963, a great poetic career was brought to an untimely end. "The Far Field" presents the most rewarding of his many volumes of poetry, both in brilliance of style and inner meaning. All of the poems have appeared previously in periodicals such as "The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, The New Yorker", and "The Partisan Review"...read more

A selection of poems from the early works of the Pulitizer Prize winning poet

A collection of poems about a world of mingled reality and fantasy, especially a variety of crazy creatures.