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Updike, John Tossing And Turning Poems New York Alfred A. Knopf 1977 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Text is clean. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. From dust jacket flap: John Updike's first collection of verse since Midpoint takes its title about a poem about insomnia. Throughout, this is poetry with its eyes wide open, restlessly alert for the oddities of reality and the double entendres of imagination. Fanciers of light verse will find a middle section of delicate fossil prints left by this vanished form; readers of Mr. Updike's fiction will recognize some of the landscapes and preoccupations. In three long poems he, in turn, remembers a boyhood Sunday in Pennsylvania, addresses aspects of a Harvard education, and contemplates, with a Dionysian verse, the aesthetic challenge posed by the new sexual candor. Shorter poems treat of spring and flying, of golf and the Caribbean, of sand dollars and bicycle chains, of the shades of bliss and variety of phenomena accessible to a man past the midpoint of his life, trying to pace himself as he heads toward Nandi. ; 90 pages Price: 25.00 USD
