Collected Poems

Collected Poems by Yvor Winters, 143 pages

This short book collects what Winters considered his best work from three decades of writing poetry.  His poems are generally short, some as short as a single evocative line

     Did you move, in the sun?

In others he mines the myths of the world, from ancient Greece, Arthurian Britain, and 17th century Spain to the American frontier, the battlefields of World War II, and the boneyards of the academy, all seemingly guided by

     The passion to condense from book to book,

     Unbroken wisdom in a single look.

Perhaps, by the end, a bold reader may even dare to claim with Winters,

     I crept beyond the Lie.