"[Wilbur] stood for decades in the front rank of American poets who
know how to use traditional forms: his confident rhymes and stanzas
are second to none, their poise perhaps unsurpassed since Frost,
and like Frost he can combine smooth popular appeal with a
startling dark side. . . . This volume's gems measure up to
Wilbur's high standards." --"Publishers Weekly
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"Richard Wilbur's imagination has long regarded life in the
bud--the seedling, the fledgling, the sprout, the egg. Approaching
ninety, this American master is ever more elegantly brooding over
beginnings, as in the 'clenched bloom' of 'A Pasture Poem' in this
new volume. His flowering never ceases to unfold." --Mary Jo
Salter
"When the Roman poet Horace described what a master poet does, he
was describing what the American master poet Richard Wilbur does in
his wonderful new book. There's perfection of music and utterance
everywhere in these brave, witty, radiant new poems. There's
exaltation here. He makes it loo
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