Stars and Other Signs
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Poems by Marie Borroff
View Inside
Format: ClothPrice: $25.00
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.
Also Available in:
Papere-book
Out of Print
These poems, written over fifty years, address such subjects as the celerity of time, old age, art, literary acquaintances, and the author’s beloved New England landscape. They delight in sound and form, even as they unsettle and disturb.
Marie Borroff is Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University. She is both an accomplished scholar and the author of eloquent verse translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl. Her poems have appeared in the New Republic and the American Scholar.
“An excellent collection of essays by a top notch scholar, particularly fine in its use of philological detail to open up wider areas of interpretation within the poems. In addition to the three new essays, it is a great boon to have the seven previously published essays collected together in a single volume for easy access.”—Margaret Lamont, Comitatus
“The purest song is plucked from a taut string. Marie Borroff’s instrument is immaculately tuned, and her voice floats above the noisy crowd of contemporary poets: clear, canny, confident. Her work recalls those masters, from Sappho to Frost, who are wise to the world. Her wisdom, shaped by an exhilarating technical virtuosity, both questions and consoles. Her poems are built to last, in the memory and in the heart.”—J. D. McClatchy, poet and critic
ISBN: 9780300095708
Publication Date: November 10, 2002
Publication Date: November 10, 2002
96 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
