A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times.
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A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times.
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As New. William Meredith has character. In a time when what passes for poems are often slickly-packaged, trumped-up ads for the self--for the poet's various victimhoods and petty grievances--Meredith's poetry returns us to poetry's sustaining, self-dissolving source: praise. Meredith's poems are tenderly and accurately rendered love-letters to a world he loves. Yet he is too humble, too respectful of people and nature, to lay claim to his subjects. Instead, he affords everything and everyone a sense of privacy, easing gently toward his subjects, admiring all their dimensions, recording the small beauties along the way--all the while both praising and maintaining their mysteries. Meredith offers us a world unencumbered by the transient, self-serving designs of the ego. He is like the friend who, by his modest and affirming presence, makes you feel smarter and more attractive than you are. ''The cheer, reader my friend, is in the words here, somewhere, '' he writes. As with all his lines, it's a beautiful understatement. A New copy that shows a bit of shelfwear--mostly the silver National Book Award seal on the front cover worn along part of its perimeter. Text pristine.