Cloudless at First (Hardback) - Common

by Hilda Morley

"Cloudless at First" presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work, in the same sure, lyrical voice."Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play."

-Stanley Kunitz

Genres: Poetry

302 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Hilda Morley was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain movement.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spectacular collection of poems by this too-little known poet. First rank.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 M8644c 1988