Tossing And Turning. Poems

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1977
Edition: First Edition

Description: 90 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and age marks on page edges, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: John Updikes first collection of verse since Midpoint takes its title from a poem about insomnia. Throughout, this is poetry with its eyes wide open, restlessly alert for the oddities of reality and the double entendres of imagination. Fanciers of light verse will find a middle section of delicate fossil prints left by this vanished form; readers of Mr. Updikes fiction will recognize some of the landscapes and preoccupations. In three long poems he, in turn, remembers a boyhood Sunday in Pennsylvania, addresses aspects of a Harvard education, and contemplates, with a Dionysian verve, the aesthetic challenge posed by the new sexual candor (“We must assimilate cunts to our creed of beauty). Shorter poems treat of spring and flying, of gold and the Caribbean, of sand dollars and bicycle chains, of the shades of bliss and variety of phenomena accessible to a man past the midpoint of his life, trying to pace himself as he heads toward Nandi.

ISBN: 0394410904