Poems: New and Selected

by Marianne Boruch

This new collection features twenty-five new poems and a generous selection by the author from each of her four previous volumes - View from the Gazebo, Descendant. Moss Burning, and A Stick that Breaks and Breaks.

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at Purdue University and was its director until 2005. She has taught there since 1987 as well as at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Reviews

[Celeste · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many of these poems are beautiful not only in their diction and rhythm, but also in their use of original metaphor. Like any book though there is a lot of inconsistency in the quality of the poems, some are really awesome while other fall flat (when compared to the awesome ones). I would have preferred a more concise collection though it is heartening to know that even good poets can make mistakes.

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

a perfectly fine collection, but didn't grab me. i love her books ON POETRY as much as her poetry itself.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this on an inter-library loan. Good stuff, but I think I would have enjoyed the poems more if I could have read them in the context of their complete collections.