Collected Poems
30 August 2024
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
A monumental celebration of "one of the most significant poets writing today" (David Baker,The Los Angeles Review of Books)
In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence and meticulous observation of nature, history and domestic life. From the subtly evocative images of Claiming Kin(1976) to the mosaic of sonnets and voices conjuring a prescient narrative of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Kyrie (1995) to fierce encounters with mortality in the National Book Award finalist Shadow of Heaven (2002) and the propulsive inventions of Headwaters (2013), the evolution of Voigt’s astonishing creative and technical mastery is on full display. This definitive collection showcases the brilliant career of “a quintessential American elegist” (Katy Didden, Kenyon Review).
From “Apple Tree
”O my soul,
it is not a small thing,
to have made from three,
this one, this one life.
Reviews
"Careful, attentive, sometimes consoling, heartbreaking or plangent where no consolation can be found." — Stephanie Burt, The New York Times Book Review
"[Ellen Bryant Voigt] aligns herself firmly within the pastoral tradition, following in a direct line behind the likes of Virgil, Clare, Edward Thomas, and especially the darker side of Frost. Like them, she doesn’t apotheosize nature. She knows all too well the travails and tedium of rural life, but also knows its consolations." — David Wojahn, On the Sea Wall
Also By: Ellen Bryant Voigt 
Headwaters: Poems
Paperback, 2015
Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
Headwaters: Poems
E Book, 2013
Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
Headwaters: Poems
Hardback, 2013
A meticulously crafted new volume from the acclaimed American poet whom the Washington Post Book World called a “genius.”
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
Paperback, 2008
“Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
E Book, 2008
“Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
