Selected Poems [2023] each begins to stand alone

each begins to stand alone as a character in its own right

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Selected Poems [2023] each begins to stand aloneThe best from Updikes lifework in poetry: 129 witty and intimate poems that, when read together take on the quality of an autobiography in verse. By a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. Updikes gift for close observation, in these poems as elsewhere, is near to supernatural. The New York Times Five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems written between 1953 and 2008 with the cumulative force of an unfolding