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1. Selected Poems (New Directions
 
2. The World, The Worldless
3. Some Words
$102.62
4. Metaphor of Trees & Last Poems
 
$29.91
5. The Mind's Landscape: William
 
6. Silence and Metaphor
 
7. Life Supports: New and Collected
 
8. Light and Dark
 
9. Death Is the Place: Poems
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10. The Body of This Life: Reading
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11. The Music of Thought in the Poetry
 
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12. Vectors and Smoothable Curves:
 
13. William Bronk: An essay
14. The "Winter Mind": William Bronk
 
15. Once and For All: Poems for William
16. The Cage of Age
 
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17. Our Selves
 
18. The Stance
 
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19. The Mild Day: Poems
20. Living Instead

1. Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp816)
by William Bronk
Paperback: 96 Pages (1995-10-01)
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Asin: 0811213145
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2. The World, The Worldless
by William Bronk
 Paperback: 51 Pages (1964-06)
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Isbn: 0685790231
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3. Some Words
by William Bronk
Paperback: 66 Pages (1998-10-01)
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Isbn: 1883689732
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Poetry. The poem "Realization" reads: "Our lives in their daily reference to the actual world/seem to happen there. In retrospect,/their shape is otherwise: actual terms/have little to do with them, cannot describe/what they are. But those are the terms we need to use." The prolific and widely respected poet William Bronk, author of nearly two dozen celebrated books of poetry and prose, succeeds in making "actual terms," terms that actually fit neither objectsnor experiences, completely relevant to "our lives in their daily reference," without losing sight of a certain gorgeous and concrete specificity: "mornings are beautiful." (from "Epiphany") "The brilliant fire of his poems, their blaze of ruthless thought and flawless music achieves the impossible: it forges a world out of the 'worldless.'"-Rosmarie Waldrop. Deceptively simple on their surface, these poems ask to be read repeatedly: their quiet voices resonate with a kind of truth that some might argue has gone out of fashion, but which remains, almost inevitably, true. ... Read more


4. Metaphor of Trees & Last Poems
by William Bronk
Paperback: 147 Pages (1999-01-01)
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Asin: 1883689953
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Poetry. Reality isn't real. Why do we look?/ We look because the real is the shape of desire:/ that the world be real and we a person in it./ We believe our beliefs to pretend that that should be/ or abide a world whose reality isn't real. One of our most intimate, haunting, and important poets -- Dictionary of Literary Biography. One of the most solid and unfrivolous contemporary poets -- Kirkus Reviews. Arguably the most metaphysical poet of his generation -- Hungry Mind Review. ... Read more


5. The Mind's Landscape: William Bronk And Twentieth-century American Poetry
by David W. Clippinger
 Hardcover: 288 Pages (2006-03-30)
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Asin: 0874139147
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6. Silence and Metaphor
by William Bronk
 Hardcover: Pages (1975-12)
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Isbn: 9991124772
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7. Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
by William Bronk
 Hardcover: 241 Pages (1997-11)
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Isbn: 1883689600
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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William Bronk was born in 1918 and lives now in Hudson Falls, New York. Acclaimed by The Nation as "our most significant poet," he is the author of nearly two dozen celebrated books of poetry. Winner of the American Book Award for his collected poems, LIFE SUPPORTS, he is also the author of a collection of prose works, VECTORS AND SMOOTHABLE CURVES, which is widely considered a landmark in contemporary literature. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Amazingly powerful poems.
Bronk's poems are consistently thought-provoking and true.Although the poems are easy to understand, I find myself stopping after almost every poem to process and reread.

I don't know why he isn't read more and better known. He shows the influence of Frost more than any other major poet. He should be taught to high school kids.

This collection is very generous one and a good starting point for someone new to Bronk's poems.

5-0 out of 5 stars The most intelligent American poetry of the century...
The metaphysical composure, the simplicity of expression, and the rich austerity of William Bronk's poetry has a power reminiscent of T.S. Eliot, whose ability to reflect on the root questions of our life and civilizationhe shared. This is poetry that will speak to the prosaic moments of yourdaily thought, and your sense of reality itself, at the same time. It ispoetry that will be read a century from now, and so you should read itnow... ... Read more


8. Light and Dark
by William Bronk
 Hardcover: Pages (1975-12)
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Isbn: 9991124675
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9. Death Is the Place: Poems
by William Bronk
 Hardcover: 50 Pages (1989-12)
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Isbn: 0865474095
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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3-0 out of 5 stars A quiet collection
In this collection, American Book Award winner William Bronk write aseries of very, very short sharp poems on a variety of subjects.Most ofthe poems are just two or three lines; a few of them are mildly humorous("Reality is willing we should think / about it: no harm."). There are moments of striking beauty: "Summer is the deepness oftrees." Many of the poems contemplate the meaning of death, and therelationship between man and the deity.These are serious poems, by a poethighly respected if somewhat unknown.While I would not recommend Bronk toanybody just falling in love with poetry, he is a wonderful acquaintancefor those who have met the major poets and want a quiet corner to sit inand reflect.Nothing major here, but a nice place to visit. ... Read more


10. The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk
Paperback: 244 Pages (2001-01-01)
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Asin: 1584980184
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Poetry. From 1956 till his death in 1999, William Bronk published thirty books of poetry and essays. Bronk returned again and again to a fundamental assertion that what is real--the world, truth, and ourselves--remains beyond the grasp of language and knowledge. Consequently, the world that we inhabit is a fiction of our own construction. Winner of the American Book Award for his collected poems, he is considered one of the foremost poets of his time. THE BODY OF THIS LIFE is an outstanding collection of essays and memoirs about his work by poets and scholars including Edward Foster, Burt Kimmelman, Robert Bertholf, and David Clippenger. ... Read more


11. The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk
by Henry Weinfield
Hardcover: 252 Pages (2009-03-16)
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Asin: 1587297817
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George Oppen (1908–1984), born into a prosperous German Jewish family, began his career as a protégé of Ezra Pound and a member of the Objectivist circle of poets; he eventually broke with Pound and became a member of the Communist party before returning to poetry more than twenty-five years later. William Bronk (1918–1999), by contrast, a descendant of the first European families in New York, was influenced by the works of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and the work of the New England writers of the American Renaissance. Despite differences in background and orientation, the two men formed a deep friendship and shared a similar existential outlook. As Henry Weinfield demonstrates in this searching and original study, Oppen and Bronk are extraordinary thinkers in poetry who struggled with central questions of meaning and value and whose thought acquires the resonance of music in their work. These major writers created poetry of enduring value that has exerted an increasing influence on younger generations of poets. 

From his careful readings of Oppen’s and Bronk’s poetry to his fascinating examination of the letters they exchanged, Weinfield provides important aesthetic, epistemological, and historical insights into their poetry and poetic careers. In bringing together for the first time the work of two of the most important poets of the postwar generation, The Music of Thought not only illuminates their poetry but also raises important questions about American literary history and the categories in terms of which it has generally been interpreted.  
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12. Vectors and Smoothable Curves: The Collected Essays of William Bronk, New Edition
by William Bronk
 Paperback: 224 Pages (1996-12-01)
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Asin: 1883689325
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Nonfiction. VECTORS AND SMOOTHABLE CURVES, the collected essays of one of our foremost writers, brings together "The New World," "A Partial Glossary," "The Brother in Elysium," and shorter works on Thoreau and Oppen. Included are meditations on time, desire, and the roots of American literary thought. Few books in our time are as provocative and rewarding ... Read more


13. William Bronk: An essay
by Cid Corman
 Paperback: 109 Pages (1976)

Isbn: 0916562069
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14. The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters
by Burt Kimmelman
Hardcover: 211 Pages (1998-10)
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Isbn: 0838637906
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Topos of contemporary american poetry revealed...
Kimmelman's use of an overall presentation of Bronk's "World" in peregrinations both biographical and literary, serves both contemporary theory and literary history in this very readable survey of one of thiscentury's most influential poets and thinkers. I found myself finallyliberated, along with Bronk, from the yoke of Stevens' mind-bendingalteration of the american poetic topos, free to investigate the strandsand filaments of this poet's lexical world with new license. A rewardingjourney, despite the fact that the poet's own work might sometimes make usreact quite the contrary. ... Read more


15. Once and For All: Poems for William Bronk
by Cid Corman
 Hardcover: Pages (1975-01-01)

Asin: B001OAF1VI
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16. The Cage of Age
by William Bronk
Paperback: 100 Pages (1996-10)
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Isbn: 1883689414
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17. Our Selves
by William Bronk
 Paperback: 108 Pages (1994-11-01)
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Poetry. "Bronk's surgical turn of mind and resultant brevity imbue his poems with a speed and agility that cut to the core of knotty matters.. His rare gift is the ability to float difficult truths on fleeting snatches of spoken breath"--the Village Voice Literary Supplement. ... Read more


18. The Stance
by William Bronk
 Paperback: Pages (1975-01-01)

Asin: B0022YS5G8
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19. The Mild Day: Poems
by William Bronk
 Hardcover: 56 Pages (1993-10)
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Asin: 1883689015
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Poetry. "With his third collection in three years, Bronk is at his philosophical best. Like his previous work, these brief, highly spiritual poems probe the nature (or inanity) of life, and how speech plays a role in shaping what man thinks he is. But, whereas most poets are obsessed with finding the proper names for objects within their range of vision, these poems imply that, since the meanings of words are subject to change over time, any name will do. What matters is action; man alone has the ability not only to move, but to choose his movements, to create. 'To be is the verb to be. The noun pretends.' An English teacher's nightmare, these minimalist poems string together verbs and adverbs, seldom in anything approximating what we usually think of as a sentence. Nouns are often abstract and always general--'truth,' 'sadnesses,' 'poverty,' 'devotion'--yet in the hands of this literary descendant of Louis Zukofsky and the other Objectivist poets, no poem lacks specificity. For the first time in Bronk's work, pronouns include more than the speaker; 'we,' 'us' and 'you' predominate, while the 'I' is 'inanimate, marked for discard.' The fact that Bronk is now 75 years old gives words such as these additional credence"--Publishers Weekly. ... Read more


20. Living Instead
by William Bronk
Hardcover: 98 Pages (1996-09-01)
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Isbn: 1883689406
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Poetry. LIVING INSTEAD was published by North Point Press in 1991 and is now available from Talisman House and from SPD. William Bronk has been called one of America's greatest living poets (Compound Eye). The way Columbus or someone earlier/ came to a place to be called a New World/ though not more new than the old world was/ --there all along and people living there--/ is like the way a poem is come upon:/ you think there's something there, go see what. (from Exploration). ... Read more


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