Ebook {Epub PDF} Midpoint and Other Poems by John Updike

Buy Midpoint and Other Poems by John Updike online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop www.doorway.ru Count: Midpoint and Other Poems. In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint/5.  · “Midpoint,” the long poem that opens Midpoint and Other Poems (NY: Knopf, ), was written “to take inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year – a midpoint,” as the book’s dust jacket puts it. As it turned out, “Midpoint” was written a few years prematurely, since Updike () lived to be nearly www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.

Because Updike has done so many limited and ephemeral pieces, some are truly rare: Dog's Death (), a short poem on a single mimeographed sheet, supposedly done in an edition of copies is rarely seen (we've had it once). Midpoint and Other Poems. Title: Midpoint and Other Poems. Author: UPDIKE, John. Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of numbered copies Signed by the author. Midpoint and Other Poems Paperback - January 1, by John Updike (Author) › Visit Amazon's John Updike Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. John Updike (Author) out of 5 stars 3 ratings.

In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint. Aside from “Endpoint,” Updike’s other poems approach death from many angles. Whether observing the passing of time through music, nature, or a power tool, aging and the end remain present on Updike’s mind. Consider, the sonnet, “Tools”. “Tell me, how do the manufacturers of tools. Midpoint and Other Poems. In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest.