The Dear Past & Other Poems by Janet Lewis

Philip Levine recommends
The Dear Past & Other Poems, a collection by Janet Lewis (Robert L. Barth): "These poems were written over a period of seventy-five years, from 1919 to 1994, and though they demonstrate a variety of strategies and structures, they are brought together by the extraordinary precision and clarity of Lewis's artistry, as well as by the poet's incredibly intense love of all that grows and lives and the landscapes that define us. Hardy would have loved these poems."