Anterooms: New Poems And Translations

Anterooms: New Poems and Translations

From the Back CoverA major event in poetic history and a remarkable addition to a master? oeuvreAnterooms is the first new volume in a decade from this Pultizer Prize-winning, former Poet Laureate of the United States. Here, Richard Wilbur continues to explore the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted. These twenty-two poems and translations are accompanied thirty-seven delightful riddles translated from the Latin, making up a collection that is masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.Rejoice at the news of this collection from a legendary poet and translator who was called ? hero to a new generation