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Beautiful Verses for the Poetry Lover

Beautiful Verses for the Poetry Lover

Give the poetry lover in your life the gift of verse. Presenting: our holiday checklist.

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Read Poems and a Story by John Updike

Read Poems and a Story by John Updike

Some selections from John Updike’s two final books: Endpoint (poems) and My Father’s Tears (stories).

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May 1: Written Late at Night by Janusz Szuber

May 1: Written Late at Night by Janusz Szuber

Au revoir from the Knopf poetry team. We hope to see you next April.

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April 30: Creeper and Fine Point by John Updike

April 30: Creeper and Fine Point by John Updike

Knopf’s poetry month closes with the last two “fourteeners” written by John Updike. This pair comes at the end of the autobiographical title sequence around which Endpoint, his final collection, is built.

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April 29: The Mistake by Jack Gilbert

April 29: The Mistake by Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his last book, Refusing Heaven, is now in his mid-eighties, still celebrating and sorrowing to the fullest.

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April 28: Some Different Kinda Books by Sapphire

April 28: Some Different Kinda Books by Sapphire

A poem from the 1999 volume Black Wings & Blind Angels, by Sapphire, who is also a novelist.

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April 27: Description of Her Eyes by Franz Wright

April 27: Description of Her Eyes by Franz Wright

On love, from Franz Wright.

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April 26: There is No City that Does Not Dream by Anne Michaels

April 26: There is No City that Does Not Dream by Anne Michaels

This poem by Anne Michaels, written more than a decade ago, anticipates some of the themes of her new novel The Winter Vault, a passionate love story which juxtaposes historic events—the building of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam—with intimate moments in the lives of the characters, whose paths are altered in the course of their involvement with these ambitious constructions.

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April 25: Some Playthings by John Hollander

April 25: Some Playthings by John Hollander

“Some Playthings,” by the distinguished John Hollander, a poet for whom serious and light verse, the formal and the playful, flow forth in equal measure.

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April 24: Notes For Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary by Jane Mayhall

April 24: Notes For Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary by Jane Mayhall

Today we remember the poet Jane Mayhall, who died a few weeks ago at the age of ninety, and who wrote remarkable poems on such subjects as “Wastebaskets” (”in all that / heaven and debris, a lot of / my first gut ideas / were right”) or an obsolete subway token found in a shoulder bag, a symbol of the long-burnished imponderables in a New York life.

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