Springing New and Selected Poems
Springing New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot is a first edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on October 21, 2003. This 256-page collection features a blend of new poems alongside selections from Ponsot’s earlier works, showcasing her poetic journey over more than five decades. The volume opens with fresh pieces, including the thought-provoking poem “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”, inviting readers into the intricate landscape of her reflections.
In this life-spanning anthology, Ponsot explores themes of nature and self-discovery, tending to the complexities of her thoughts with care and passion. The collection includes previously unpublished works from 1946 to 1971, offering insights into her evolving voice. Readers will find a rich tapestry of language that balances sharp self-awareness with a celebration of life’s pleasures, grief, and the passage of time, creating a “lost haven in a springing world.”
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From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”—a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a “lost haven in a springing world.” Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.
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