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J. D. McClatchy is the author of five earlier books of poems and three collections of prose. He has served as the editor of many books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written thirteen opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is the editor of The Yale Review. He lives in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.
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Animal Poems
Doggerel; Great Cat; On Wings of Song; Poems About Horses
Edited by Carmela Ciuraru, Emily Fragos and J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $53.00
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Doggerel; Great Cat; On Wings of Song; Poems About Horses
Edited by Carmela Ciuraru, Emily Fragos and J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $53.00
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Selected Poems
Written by Anthony Hecht
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $21.00
Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.
Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and... Read more >
Written by Anthony Hecht
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $21.00
Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.
Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Anthony Hecht
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
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Written by Anthony Hecht
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
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Christmas Poems
Edited by John Hollander and J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $13.50
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Edited by John Hollander and J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $13.50
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The Four Seasons
Poems
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Introduction by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $13.50
For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.
Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth... Read more >
Poems
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Introduction by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $13.50
For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.
Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth... Read more >
Hazmat
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $15.00
HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation familiar from signs at the entrances to long dark tunnels or on the sides of suspicious containers. Here, in a series of stunning poems, J. D. McClatchy examines the first hazmat we all encounter: our own bodies. The virtuosic “Tattoos” meditates on why we... Read more >
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $15.00
HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation familiar from signs at the entrances to long dark tunnels or on the sides of suspicious containers. Here, in a series of stunning poems, J. D. McClatchy examines the first hazmat we all encounter: our own bodies. The virtuosic “Tattoos” meditates on why we... Read more >
Mercury Dressing
Poems
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $18.00
This beautiful collection from J. D. McClatchy holds up a mirror to the soul, considering heroic and human figures in poems that “balance mandarin wit with enormous learning, a fully twenty-first-century sensibility and a deft use of the demotic” (Bookpage).
“Powerful. . . . Given McClatchy’s formal virtuosity, I wouldn’t be surprised... Read more >
Poems
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $18.00
This beautiful collection from J. D. McClatchy holds up a mirror to the soul, considering heroic and human figures in poems that “balance mandarin wit with enormous learning, a fully twenty-first-century sensibility and a deft use of the demotic” (Bookpage).
“Powerful. . . . Given McClatchy’s formal virtuosity, I wouldn’t be surprised... Read more >
Ten Commandments
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $15.00
Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers... Read more >
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $15.00
Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers... Read more >
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 25, 1996
Price: $18.00
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and... Read more >
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 25, 1996
Price: $18.00
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and... Read more >
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $18.95
Now in its second edition, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry has established itself in the decade since its original publication as an indispensable volume for everyone interested in poetry today, from poets and students and teachers of poetry to the ever-increasing audience for contemporary poets.
From Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop... Read more >
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $18.95
Now in its second edition, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry has established itself in the decade since its original publication as an indispensable volume for everyone interested in poetry today, from poets and students and teachers of poetry to the ever-increasing audience for contemporary poets.
From Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop... Read more >
The Changing Light at Sandover
Written by James Merrill
Edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $30.00
A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work.
“An astonishing performance . . . As near to [a masterpiece] as anything that American poetry has produced in the last two or three decades.” —The New York Review of Books
“James Merrill has created a poem as central to our... Read more >
Written by James Merrill
Edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $30.00
A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work.
“An astonishing performance . . . As near to [a masterpiece] as anything that American poetry has produced in the last two or three decades.” —The New York Review of Books
“James Merrill has created a poem as central to our... Read more >
