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Collected Poems: W.H AudenBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain spoken. This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previously collected

histories and languages

A deliciously (perhaps devilishly) original book

from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott

of once-sacred homes now vanished

the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history

but also with her literary forebears–like James Baldwin

"Hometown Piece for Messrs

only to vanish again

hetero-patriarchal/colonialist white supremacy

nightlong parties

Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks

and stakes of human behavior