All the Poems of Muriel Spark

In the seventy-three poems collected here Muriel Spark works in open forms as well as villanelles, rondels, epigrams, and even the tour de force of a twenty-one page ballad. She also shows herself a master of unforgettable short poems. Before attaining fame as a novelist (Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Muriel Spark was already an acclaimed poet. The "power and control" of her poetry, as Publishers Weekly remarked, "is almost startling." With the vitality and wit typical of all her work, Dame Muriel has never stopped writing poems, which frequently appear in The New Yorker. As with all her creations, the poems show Spark to be "astonishingly talented and truly inimitable" (The San Francisco Chronicle).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/2004
ISBN: 9780811215763
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.14w x 0.47d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 03/22/2004 pg. 83
Publishers Weekly 03/22/2004