Yvor Winters: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

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Summary: a reintroduction to a great poet
Review: Winters is best known as a critic and as a teacher--he's taught some great poets, and they in turn have taught some great poets... We have a lot to thank Yvor Winters for. But people sometimes forget that Winters was a poet as well. Some of my favorite poems are: "Jose's Country," "October," "Full Moon," "Sleep," "The Passing Night," "The Fable," "The Fall of Leaves," "Moonlight Alert," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and "The Journey."

Thom Gunn edited this addition to the great new series Library of America is putting out, 'American Poets Project." Gunn himself is a great poet, and brings a good sensibility to his selection of Winters' poetry. You get some phenomenal poems in this collection. Gunn also includes the one short story Winters wrote. And surprisingly, it is a pretty good story. This is a great edition of a poet I'm afraid that we have almost forgotten. We have to thank Library of America for creating this new series, and Thom Gunn for his selection of Winters poetry.