Bent Northrop Memorial Library

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, the small town, the people,...

A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T.S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only...

New and collected ruminations on joy, loss, love, and poetry present over 50 new Billy Collins poems, as well as poetry culled from 'Nine Horses,' 'Horoscopes for the Dead,' 'Ballistics,' and 'The Trouble with Poetry.'

This collection of poems provides a wonderful selection of the work of Robert Frost. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life, and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens. Poems include: "The Road Not Taken" "Christmas Trees" "An Old Man's Winter Night" "The Exposed Nest" "I'd Like a Glass of Milk" "A Patch of Old Snow" "In the Home Stretch" "The Telephone Machine" ...