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Antarctic Traveller: Poems

Winner of the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

The suppleness and beauty of Katha Pollitt's poems, combined with their gift of direct emotional statement, make them stay in the mind with the completeness and the definition of paintings. The style is unruffled, but throughout, the tone, the movement, the light and details observed, the distilled simplicity and insight, the beautiful, firm, natural speech all bear witness to poems composed from a deep level of feeling and with a sure, strong sense of poetic form,

They range from a subdued and tender portrait of a lonely man in a city to the classic evocation in "Archaelogy" of digging within oneself for a poem.

There are poems that advance into the difficult crossroads of personal destiny, of love and grief. A group of "Vegetable Poems" radiates a marvelous satirical charm that strikes just the right balance between quiddity and delight. And the "Five Poems of Japanese Paintings" celebrate the poet's love of color, ideal proportion, the enduring Oriental reverence for "the virtues of the noble man: / reticence, calm, clarity of mind."

These beautiful poems announce a poet of outstanding gifts.

~ from back cover

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 60
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780394520049
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1982