The Collected Poems of John Ciardi

Compiled and Edited by Edward M. Cifelli

From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.

1997, 656 pages
$34.95 paper (s), 1-55728-449-0

John Ciardi
A Biography

Edward M. Cifelli

In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concerns, passions, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters.

1997, 592 pages
$48.00 cloth, 1-55728-448-2
$28.00 paper, 1-55728-539-X

The Selected Letters of John Ciardi

Edited by Edward M. Cifelli

"A wonderful overview of this witty, outspoken, and often controversial man of letters."

—Maxine Kumin

1991, 497 pages
$40.00 cloth (s), 1-55728-171-8

Poems of Love and Marriage

John Ciardi

"Sensitive and intelligent, the poems in this book are a fitting testament to an accomplished man of letters and a fine poet."

—Atlanta Constitution

1988, 45 pages
$16.00 cloth (s), 1-55728-053-3

Echoes
Poems Left Behind

John Ciardi

"These posthumously discovered poems radiate the great spirit and wit of a celebrated man of letters. . . . Ciardi's respect for life and death is palpable, his voice an eloquent echo."

—Publishers Weekly

1989, 75 pages
$16.00 paper (s), 1-55728-063-0

Ciardi Himself
Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry

John Ciardi

An excellent introduction to the man and his thoughts on the painstaking craftsmanship involved in the art of writing poetry, Ciardi Himself includes some hard lessons, but in the hands of this master teacher, the going is easy.

1989, 155 pages
$29.95 cloth, 1-55728-084-3

Saipan

The War Diary of John Ciardi

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

1988, 155 pages
$16.95 paper (s), 1-55728-018-5
$24.95 cloth (s), 1-55728-017-7

John Ciardi
Measure of the Man

Vince Clemente

1989, 246 pages
$25.00 cloth (s), 0938626795
$16.00 (s), 0938626809