Volume 52, Number 6 · April 7, 2005
Angels on the Laundry Line
By Charles Simic
Collected Poems, 1943–2004
by Richard Wilbur
Harcourt, 585 pp., $35.00
The huge, comprehensive edition of Richard Wilbur's Collected Poems represents the work of some sixty years. In addition to his most recent poems, it includes seventeen previous collections, five children's books, and translations from several languages. Over the length of his distinguished career, Wilbur has also published two books of literary essays and has translated the plays of Molière and Racine to high praise. For his accomplishments, he has been honored with a National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the Bollingen Translation Prize, and many other prestigious awards.
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