{"product_id":"april-twilights-and-other-poems-foreword-by-robert-thacker-hardcover","title":"April Twilights and Other Poems: Foreword by Robert Thacker - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Thacker\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBefore Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights and Other Poems. \u003c\/i\u003eThis Everyman's Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights\u003c\/i\u003e, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In such lyrical poems as \"The Hawthorn Tree,\" \"Winter at Delphi,\" \"Prairie Spring,\" \"Poor Marty,\" and \"Going Home,\" Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLA CATHER\u003c\/b\u003e, author of twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, My Ántonia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.3 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859123921093,"sku":"9780307961464","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/W8668HMMPT9780307961464.webp?v=1771522554","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/april-twilights-and-other-poems-foreword-by-robert-thacker-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}