{"product_id":"9781618460332","title":"Radcliffe Squires: Selected Poems 1950-1985: Centennial Edition","description":"\"An evocative poet, so good at his best that no one interested in poetry today should be ignorant of his work.\" --Anne Stevenson, Contemporary Poets of the English Language\u003cp\u003e\"...I feel that Squires deserves consideration as one of the finest American poets writing today. ..one experiences a sense of excitement mixed with awe that one rarely gets with contemporary poetry.\" --Dana Gioia, Hudson Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... A great and extraordinary strength of Radcliffe Squires' poetry is the force and cogency of its design, concretely realized, poem by poem...\" \u003cbr\u003e-- Brewster Ghiselin, The Sewanee Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... poems that are powerfully evocative ...a struggle for knowledge and insight in a world often mysteriously cruel... many of his best poems are unassumingly personal...\" \u003cbr\u003e--David Mason, Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is as though Mr. Squires had simply turned a corner in his mind and beheld an entirely new, more beautiful, and infinitely profounder field of interest...\" \u003cbr\u003e-- James Dickey, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...he brings us to....the hidden spring of life. Thus he confounds our thoughtlessly held distinctions between life and death, spirit and matter.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Emily Grosholz, New England Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I venture the guess that many of these poems must endure as long as English poems are read... when the time has had a chance to sift the chaff from the cliques Radcliffe Squires will come to be recognized as one of the most valid singers of life now at work among us.\" \u003cbr\u003e--John Ciardi, The Western Humanities Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library Partners Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037869097200,"sku":"9781618460332","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618460332_p0.jpg?v=1763854118","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618460332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}