Poems Are Hard to Read (Poets on Poetry)
Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
by William Meredith
from Triquarterly
The New York Times Book Review wrote that William Meredith's poetry "suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." This collection, a summing up of Meredith's best writing over several decades, won the National Book Award, and is the sort of book readers will return to again and again for its considerable virtues: attention to craft, the ring of truth, and clarity in a world of muddle. Here's one favorite poem, titled "A Major Work": "Poems are hard to read / Pictures are hard to see / Music is hard to hear / And people are hard to love / But whether from brute need / Or divine energy / At last mind eye and ear / and the great sloth heart will move."
Reasons for Poetry & The Reason for Criticism: Two Lectures delivered at the Library of Congress on May 7, 1979 and May 5, 1980
by William Meredith
from Library of Congress
Wreck of the Thresher & Other Poems
by William Meredith
from Mystic Seaport
Nineteen poems by William Meredith comprise the first signature of this unique journal. The balance of this elegant book are alternating blank and lined pages for recording your own inspirational drawings and writings. Two books in one, an inspiring poetry book by an award-winning poet and a private journal. The Navy subjects and themes resonate with many Americans who have served or are currently deployed.
Window on the Black Sea: Bulgarian Poetry in Translation
Crossing Over
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