Mayflies: New Poems and Translations

By Richard Wilbur

This book of 25 poems by Richard Wilbur is a stated first edition. It was published in 2000 by Harcourt, Inc., New York. Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921. In 1987 he was named the second Poet Laureate of the U.S., following Robert Penn Warren. In 1989 he won his second Pulitzer Prize for his New and Collected Poems. He has won the National Book Award, the Bollingen Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Frost Medal, the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the T. S. Eliot Award, a Ford Foundation Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award as well as many other prestigious awards for his contributions to verse and the art of translation. Both the book and the dust jacket are in fine condition. It has 80 pages and measures 8.25 by 5.5 inches. The dust jacket states, “These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur’s stature as one of our greatest living masters of verse.”

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