At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties
Publishing Details
At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties
By (Author) David Ignatow
BOA Editions, Limited
BOA Editions, Limited
11th April 1997
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
175
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 10mm
212g
Description
Drawing from his literary fathers Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Bollingen Prize-winning poet David Ignatow eschews ornamentation in favor of embracing the fierce, uncompromising truths of the human spirit in his eighteenth collection.
Reviews
"Complex, beautiful, lacerated with living and with toil, uncompromising. Yet, for all that, there is an easy grace and Athenian simplicity." --William Billiter, Rain Taxi
Author Bio
David Ignatow (1914-1997) was the author of more than 25 books including Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems (BOA 1999) and At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (BOA 1998). Ignatow's many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort." He also received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Frost Medal, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. During his literary career, Ignatow worked as an editor of American Poetry Review, Analytic, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Chelsea Magazine, and as poetry editor of The Nation.
