Selected Poems

by John Ciardi

Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature

Genres: Poetry

222 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1984

About the author

John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, editor, writer and etymologist.

Reviews

[Rosemary Szczygiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never known Ciardi to be anything but an enigma in his poetry. While his writings on aesthetic theory in poetry is superlative, the poems he writes can be slow and awkward in the reading.