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Selected Poems Summer Knowledge: Summer Knowledge (New Directions Paperbook, 241)
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I was first drawn to Schwartz via Saul Bellow's book Humboldts Gift. Although his rise and fall may be sad, what I am struck by here is the breadth of his poetry. As he says in his poem "The Kingdom of Poetry: "Poetry is quick as tigers, clever as cats, vivid as oranges". In his work, there are dark passages as "The Heavy Bear that goes with m... »
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Last and Lost Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
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The remarkable thing is that Schwartz kept writing great poetry, despite alcohol and a solitary life. The poems may not have the same subject or form as those in "Summer Knowledge", being more free and more sentimental (more like Whitman), but he was still producing good poems. For example in the 1965 poem Spring: "The earth, just like a schoolgirl... »
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