Product Description: These poems plumb the depths of elegy yet offer an upward gesture by the volume’s end

Product Description: What’s the Story? Reflections on a Life Grown Long is, in many ways, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of this ongoing search. By turns elegiac, humorous, sad, joyful, angry –and often many of these at once– this book of extremely short prose reflections entertains an abiding question for Lea: to what extent does “my” version of what happens in this life and in the world at large coincide with some imagined “real” version? If the author had an opinionated, positive answer to such a question when young, life has imposed a degree of humility upon him in older age, whether he wants it or not...read more

Product Description: It's been said about Lea that “this extraordinary poet finds an elegance and beauty that can be glimpsed throughout his often harsh landscape.” This new collection evidences that skill. Here the natural world coexists with the poet’s boundless intellect...read more

Product Description: In Sydney Lea’s poems, purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane, and beauty knows the full range of nature―from the plumed tension of a newborn child twisting away from the ready breast to bright birds lying dead on the winter lawn...read more

Product Description: One of the most influential modern poets, Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was awarded virtually every major American prize for poetry, including the Pulitzer and the Bollingen. Written mostly by other poets, in styles ranging from the informal to the scholarly, these essays explore Hecht’s image and poetic devices, his debts to other poets, and his place in the study of modern poetry...read more

Product Description: In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments...read more

Product Description: These poems-selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades-more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely deaths; but his faith in Christian redemption shines through even the bleakest of his poems...read more

Product Description: What does a good, long ramble in the woods reveal to us about our shared human condition? How do we gracefully shed our civilized layers of defensive behavior, our fear of discovery, of the unknown or once-known but forgotten? Award-winning poet and outdoorsman Sydney Lea vividly explores these issues in this compelling, refreshing and humorous memoir...read more

Product Description: “Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved—through a long, rich career—into one of America’s most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book.”—T.R. Hummer“Ghost Pain is a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level...read more

Product Description: “An anthology of work from more than 150 poets, judiciously selected from The Frost Place, a sanctuary for poets and poetry. The collected poems honor Robert Frost, himself a lifelong teacher of poetry who encouraged the creative visions of young students, and Donald Sheehan, who has nurtured the legacy of the Frost Place...read more

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Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for his collection To the Bone, Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, Pursuit of a Wound, is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky and the dispossessed. Delving in equal measure into the flinty northern New England landscape and the exiled souls of ordinary people, Pursuit of a Wound moves beyond Lea's previous work to explore new poetic strategies, including some that approach prose poetry. Combining a free-ranging sensibility akin to Whitman's with a keen attention to verse's formal possibilities, this collection of twenty-eight new poems evokes a beautiful and threatened place and ratifies Lea's status as heir-apparent to Robert Frost. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Lea, Sydney

Product Description: Emerson described the hunter as "commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present." The autobiographical essays in this elegiac collection convey that sense of living power, for Sydney Lea goes far beyond colorful accounts of tramping through Vermont woods following a gun dog's bell or a buck's trail...read more

Product Description: This beautiful book is crafted with the kind of attentive patience and workmanship that appeals to the fishermen in us. The fine writing includes stories by Thomas McGuane and pulitzer prize-winner E. Annie Proulx. And the book itself is a work of art: letterpress edition, set by hand in metal type, printed on 80 lb...read more

Product Description: In his fourth collection of poems, Sydney Lea remains true to the narrative values for which his verse has been widely recognized. Here, however, Lea becomes more contemplative-even more overtly religious---than before. There are some striking poems set in Italy, but Lea's territory for the most part is a region increasingly under siege- the small towns and shrinking wild country of upper New England: the flinty bailiwick, famous for "self-reliance" yet possessed of a distinctive culture and a communitarian urge, both of which Lea depicts tenderly but without sentimentality...read more

Gathers poems by seventy-two modern writers, including John Ashbery, Erica Jong, Marilyn Hacker, John Ciardi, Dave Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Maxine Kumin, and Richard Wilbur (view table of contents)

Poems contemplate our place in nature, the mystery of death, the importance of poetry, and the meaning of human relationships

Product Description: First edition. Author's first collection. Blurbs by Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Plumly. Fine. x , 72, 4 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..