Living Things

Collected Poems

By Porter, Anne Millen & Shapiro, David L.

Publishers Summary:
Living Things contains all the poems in Porter’s National Book Award Finalist collection, An Altogether Different Language, plus forty-four new works. David Shapiro writes in his foreword, “Anne Porter’s diction is as modest as that of William Carlos Williams or of a poet she nurtured as a houseguest for many years, James Schuyler. . . . She has the quality of paying attention to ultimate reality that Fairfield Porter, who painted her so often alone and with their five children, told me should be the conclusion of every sermon. . . . She is an American religious poet of stature who reminds us that the idea of the holy is still possible for us.” Living Things is a book for any lover of fine poetry, but will be particularly inspiring and meaningful to Christians whose faith is strong, and would make a beautiful gift.

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ISBN
978-1-58195-216-2
Publisher
Zoland Books


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Library Journal

Reviewed on January 30, 2006

The last book of poems from Anne Porter, the widow of painter Fairfield Porter, was a 1999 National Book Award finalist An Altogether Different Language. This book reprints the 80-odd poems of that collection and adds 44 more of Porter's beautiful hymns to light, to friends and family, and to God, "an aeon / Of refining fire...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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