Springing: New and Selected Poems

From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including "What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?"--a question that has kept Ponsot's work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a "lost haven in a springing world." Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.

• | Author: Marie Ponsot
• | Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• | Publication Date: Oct 21, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0375709878
• | ISBN-13: 9780375709876