{"product_id":"april-twilights-and-other-poems-foreword-by-robert-thacker-9780307961464","title":"April Twilights and Other Poems: Foreword by Robert Thacker","description":"\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from both versions of \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights\u003c\/i\u003e, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, My ?ntonia\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923944542482,"sku":"9780307961464","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f083670-89b6-4d50-9ca3-e97aa70be9d8.jpg?v=1738966035","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/april-twilights-and-other-poems-foreword-by-robert-thacker-9780307961464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}