The Far Field (poetry collection)

The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.[1]

The book is divided into four sections: "North American Sequence", "Love Poems", "Mixed Sequence", and "Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical".[2] The Far Field contains several of Roethke's best known works, including the title poem "The Far Field", "Meditation at Oyster River", "Journey to the Interior", and "The Rose".[1] It received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1965.[3]

  1. ^ a b Parini, Jay (2017). "Theodore Roethke". In Noel-Tod, Jeremy; Hamilton, Ian (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. pp. 525–526. ISBN 978-0199640256. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Southworth, James G. (February 1966). "Theodore Roethke: The Far Field". College English. 27 (5): 413–418. doi:10.2307/373265. JSTOR 373265.
  3. ^ "Theodore Roethke". www.poetryfoundation.org. Poetry Foundation. 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.