Springing: New and Selected Poems

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A new collection of poetry by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Bird Catcher features a selection of original poems, as well as selections from her four previous works, that span the full nature of human experience and age and explore the passage of time in human life. Rep

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"Marie Ponsot's poetic achievement is fiercely independent. A courageous eloquence is sustained throughout her work, as she mounts up what Emerson called 'the stairway of surprise.'"
---Harold Bloom

Author Bio

Marie Ponsot's first book of poems was True Minds (1956); later books are Admit Impediment (1981) and The Green Dark (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. Ponsot's most recent collection, The Bird Catcher, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1998. From the Hardcover edition.