Work, for the Night Is Coming

by Jared Carter

The Walt Whitman Award winning poetry collection by Jared Carter.

Genres: Poetry

47 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

His first published poems appeared in Indiana Sesquicentennial Poets in 1967. In 1980, his first book, Work, for the Night Is Coming, received the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize in 1994.
Subsequent collections have been Les Barricades Mysterieuse in 1999, Cross this Bridge at a Walk in 2006, and A Dance in the Street in 2012.
In 2014 his sixth book, Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems was published by the University of Nebraska Press, with an introduction by Ted Kooser.
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals in the U.S. and abroad.
He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A recent introduction to his work is The Ties of the Railroad Tracks Home: The Poetry of Jared Carter by Goodreads Author Gilbert Wesley Purdy.

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love books that are put together (ordered) well, and this one is just that. The poems seem to join hands from page to page. It also has wonderful, quiet lyric moments mixed with subtle narrative--and Carter has a knack for ending a poem in the perfect way.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

good poems, but not my thing.

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

jared carter shares my birthplace, and writes a lot about the area - IMO he is the hoosier born poet ever, and one of the finest living poets today.