Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly by Plumly, Stanley
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly by Plumly, Stanley

Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last...
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Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly by Plumly, Stanley

Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

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Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly by Plumly, Stanley

Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

$61.18
Author: Stanley Plumly
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as well as family and friendship.

For the two years before his death in 2019, Plumly worked with David Baker and Michael Collier, this book's two editors, to make preparations for the present volume. This Collected Poems contains nearly three hundred of his poems--including nine new, previously unpublished ones--and stands as a permanent archive of Plumly's achievement in verse.

As Plumly wished, Collected Poems does not categorize the poems by individual volume but presents a continuum of his lyric accomplishments. This book bears his gifts and his specific blessing, embodying his wish to offer his poems in reverse chronology, tracing back from the present to the very origins of his aesthetic. In every way, it is the book Stanley Plumly wanted to be remembered by.

Collected Poems gathers the full range of Plumly's talent as it charts the development of his unique and enduring contribution to the American lyric. The volume stands as a tribute to Plumly's artistic vision and will be welcomed by his many readers now and in the generations to come.



Author: Stanley Plumly
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781324105930


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2025

About the Author
Baker, David: - David Baker is a poet, critic, and educator. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University.Collier, Michael: - Michael Collier is a former director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences and professor emeritus of English, University of Maryland. He lives in Maryland.Plumly, Stanley: - Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including In the Outer Dark (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and Out-of-the-Body Travel (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include Giraffe (1973), Summer Celestial (1983), Boy on the Step (1989), The Marriage in the Trees (1997), and Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2000), Against Sunset (2017), and the posthumous Middle Distance (2020). His collection Old Heart (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (2018), and Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland's poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
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