{"product_id":"richard-wilbur-collected-poems-1943-2004","title":"Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems, 1943 - 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarcourt, 2004. Hardcover. VG\/VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the course of his distinguished sixty-year career, Richard Wilbur has written seventeen collections of poetry, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations. This comprehensive collection presents Wilbur's poems, including several new and never before published.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn trackless woods, it puzzled me to find\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour great rock maples seemingly aligned,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs if they had been set out in a row\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore some house a century ago,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo edge the property and lend some shade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI looked to see if ancient wheels had made\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOld ruts to which the trees ran parallel,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut there were none, so far as I could tell-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere'd been no roadway. Nor could I find the square\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDepression of a cellar anywhere,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd so I tramped on further, to survey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmazing patterns in a hornbeam spray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr spirals in a pine cone, under trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot subject to our stiff geometries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-from \"In Trackless Woods\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46682001572006,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/richardwilbur.jpg?v=1758486811","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/richard-wilbur-collected-poems-1943-2004","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}