Straw for the Fire
From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
At his death, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany. Within these notebooks, Roethke's mind roved freely, moving from the practical to the transcendental, from the halting to the sublime.
Fellow poet and colleague David Wagoner distilled these notebooks—twelve linear feet of bookshelf—into a wise and rollicking collection that shows Roethke to be one of the truly phenomenal creative sources in American poetry.
ISBN: 1-55659-248-5
From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
$16.00
Read Selected Poems
from Straw for the Fire (1953-1962)