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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

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This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.
Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

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Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

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“There are only two passions in art; there are love and hate—with endless modifications.”—Theodore Roethke


At his death, Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialogue, commentary, and fugitive miscellany. Within these notebooks, Roethke allowed his mind to rove freely, moment by moment, moving from the practical to the transcendental, from the halting to the sublime.


Fellow poet and colleague David Wagoner distilled these notebooks—twelve linear feet of bookshelf—into an energetic, wise, and rollicking collection that shows Roethke to be one of the truly phenomenal creative sources in American poetry.


From “A Psychic Janitor”:


I’m sick of fumbling, furtive, disorganized minds like bad lawyers trying to make too many points that this is an age of criticism: and these, mind you, tin-eared punks who couldn’t tell a poem from an old boot if a gun were put to their heads . . .
Cover art by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke

University of Michigan Press

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The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet
The Far Field

Bantam Dell Pub Group (Trd)

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With Roethke's sudden, tragic death in 1963, a great poetic career was brought to an untimely end. "The Far Field" presents the most rewarding of his many volumes of poetry, both in brilliance of style and inner meaning. All of the poems have appeared previously in periodicals such as "The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, The New Yorker", and "The Partisan Review". Lightning Print on Demand Title.
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke

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Roethke Centennial Celebration comes full circle with May 30-31 events - The Saginaw News - MLive.com
The Saginaw News - MLive.com, MI - May 23, 2009
Roethke Centennial Celebration comes full circle with May 30-31 events"This year our guest poet is David Wagoner," says Annie Ransford, the founder of the Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation which owns his boyhood home at 1805 Gratiot. "He studied with Roethke (in 1947) when he was a student at Penn State and later

Can't Miss It: Monday - Seattlest
Seattlest, Seattle - May 18, 2009
Can't Miss It: Monday - Seattlest SeattlestCan't Miss It: MondayMuldoon is the New Yorker's poetry editor, among other things, and he's in town to deliver the 46th Annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading. Theodore Roethke, since you ask, taught poetry at the UW, and sometimes wrote poems himself.

Willing to Be Vulnerable: The Patient Grows Up - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 19, 2009
Willing to Be Vulnerable: The Patient Grows Up - New York Times New York TimesWilling to Be Vulnerable: The Patient Grows UpOn the plus side, though, as the poet Theodore Roethke wrote: “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.” My 12-year-old kid and 27-year-old man didn't know much about mystery. They were raised on good old-fashioned Yankee

A masterly teacher - Penn
Penn, PA - May 07, 2009
A masterly teacher - Penn PennA masterly teacherI looked at the drafts and revisions and notebooks and so forth of the poet Theodore Roethke and it was fascinating to see not how bad his first drafts were—that's what you see with [William Butler] Yeats. When you look at early drafts of Yeats,