Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

William Meredith

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Winner:National Book Award -Poetry (1997)

A contemporary of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, Meredith was known from the beginning of his career as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. From his early, deeply personal poems to the later, less formal poems concerned with tolerance, civility, and shared values, Meredith's craft is marked by a thoughtfulness not often seen in poets of his, or successive, generations. He is the master of the poem that seems colloquial at first glance, but is in fact deliberately voiced, measured out, and shaped. His is a voice of unequaled honesty and clarity.

Book Details

Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Publish Date: May 1st, 1997
Pages: 231
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.53in - 5.62in - 0.77in - 0.72lb
EAN: 9780810150713
Categories: • American - General

About the Author

William Morris Meredith, Jr. (January 9, 1919 - May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.

Praise for this book

"For the past 45 years [Meredith] has looked generously and hard at our common human world. . . . William Meredith's work suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." --New York Times Book Review

"When you finish this book by Meredith, you have a strong sense of the man who wrote it, of a life well-lived." --Poetry