The Collected Poems of Tennessee WilliamsFew writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. It was as a young poet that Williams first came to the attention of New Directions' founder James Laughlin, who initially presented some of Williams' verse in the New Directions anthology Five Young American Poets 1944 (before he had any reputation as a playwright), and later published the individual volumes of Williams's poetry, In the Winter of Cities (1956, revised in 1964) and Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977). In this definitive edition, all of the playwright's collected and uncollected published poems (along with substantial variants), including poems from the plays, have been assembled, accompanied by explanatory notes and an introduction by Tennessee Williams scholars David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis. The CD included with this paperbook edition features Tennessee Williams reading, in his delightful and mesmerizing Mississippi voice, several of the whimsical folk poems he called his "Blue Mountain Ballads," poems dedicated to Carson McCullers and to his longtime companion Frank Merlo, as well as his long early poem, "The Summer Belvedere." |
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User Review - RhydTybyans - LibraryThingMuch of his poetry fails to impress me but there are a few poems which I rate very highly. Without exception, these are poems which I first heard as readings by Williams himself on a long-playing ... Read full review
Contents
Uncollected and Posthumously Published Poems | 141 |
Verse from Fiction Films and Plays | 167 |
Poems Published under the name | 175 |
Explanatory Notes and Publication History | 219 |
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| Title | The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams Volume 1065 of New Directions paperbook |
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| Editors | David Ernest Roessel, Nicholas Rand Moschovakis |
| Contributor | Nicholas Rand Moschovakis |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0811216918, 9780811216913 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › › Poetry / American / General |
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