During his long tenure in the English department of the University
of Notre Dame, Ernest Sandeen published widely. His first published
poem, "Parked Car, " appeared in the New Yorker in 1938. After
that, his poems appeared in major reviews, journals, and magazines.
They were also collected in six volumes: Antennas of Silence
(1953), Children and Older Strangers (1962), Like Any Road Anywhere
(1976), Collected Poems: 1953 -- 1977 (1977), A Later Day, Another
Year (1989), and Can These Bones Live? (1994). Collected Poems 1953
-- 1994 is a comprehensive collection, representing the best of
Sandeen's previous six volumes -- the poems he wished to preserve.
Ernest Sandeen spent virtually his entire life in the century's
poetically generated culture. A contemporary of well-known poets
such as W. H. Auden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Bly, Sandeen's
first literary influence was Carl Sandburg, with whom he shared the
hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. Taken together, the poems in this
new and augmented volume demonstrate what many discerning readers
have always known -- that Ernest Sandeen was one of the best poets
of his generation, who also deeply influenced many contemporary
poets.
On the occasion of Sandeen's death in 1997, former Poet Laureate
Robert Hass said in an interview, "what I love about [Sandeen's]
poetry is the way it has a sort of sweet gravity to it that makes
you feel that the poet was a genuinely wise man. You feel that in
his craft as much as in anything else, that the poem says what it
needs to say, so that not needing to show off is a form of beauty.
There is a kind of seriousness and grace."
Collected Poems 1953 -- 1994 offers personal and powerful
insight into life'sgreatest triumphs and tragedies. Meditating on
topics such as old age, love and eros, mortality, politics,
society, religious faith, and birth, Sandeen delves into the
ordinary, inevitable, incomprehensible facts of life. Readers who
have followed Sandeen's work over the decades will be pleased to
find his poems once again in print. New readers will discover a
poet who cannot fail to delight them.
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