Richard Howard

Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003

Richard Howard

• 2004 LATimes–Poetry winner
• Score: 10.54

The poems of Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Howard are noted for their unique dramatic force and for preserving, in their graceful, exquisitely wrought lines, human utterance at its most urbane. Here, in the first volume to draw together material from Howard’s twelve books of poems, readers can fully appreciate the erudite nuances of his lyric poetry and the superb human and historical bravura of his dramatic monologues and imagined conversations among famous figures. Inner Voices leaves no doubt as to why Howard has been “a powerful presence in American…

Les Fleurs Du Mal

Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

• 1983 NBA–Translation winner
• Score: 10.33

Untitled Subjects: Poems

Richard Howard

• 1970 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
• Score: 10.2

Without Saying: New Poems

Richard Howard

• 2008 NBA–Poetry finalist
• Score: 6.58

In Richard Howard’s new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication: the voice of Medea’s mother trying to explain her daughter’s odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in life, faced with the disputed prospect of meeting L. Frank Baum and then, later on, “managing” not only Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird but his own unruly cast of characters, including Mrs. Wharton and young Hugh Walpole.

Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003

Richard Howard

• 2004 NBCC–Criticism finalist
• Score: 6.54

Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects—from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body. Howard’s intense familiarity with modern poetry is seen to excellent effect in essays on the “poetry of…

Like Most Revelations: New Poems

Richard Howard

• 1994 NBA–Poetry finalist
• Score: 6.44

This brilliant collection of poems by one of America’s most distinguished men of letters shows Richard Howard in a new phase: stronger, more resonant, more distinctive than ever. Two long, dramatic poems serve as the beginning and end of Like Most Revelations. In each, intimate perceptions are linked with the forces of the larger world: the world in which the speakers age, argue, founder, and face their fates. In between are twenty-seven poems ranging from monologue and epistle to elegy and satire. There are meditations on graffiti and Mozart, tributes to…