Sapphics and Uncertainties

About

“Desperately and delightfully unfashionable” was how reviewer Richmond Lattimore characterized Timothy Steele’s Uncertainties and Rest when it first appeared in 1979. Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems appeared in 1986 and solidified and extended Steele’s reputation as, in the words of Publishers Weekly, “one of the finest contemporary poets to write in meter and traditional forms.”

Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970–1986 draws together these two books into a single volume. This collection offers the most substantial gathering yet from a body of work widely praised for its tonal and thematic range and for its wit and warmth of feeling.

Author

Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, Timothy Steele received his B.A. from Stanford and his Ph.D. from Brandeis. He is the author of three collections of poems as well as a book of literary criticism. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Los Angeles PEN Center’s Literary Award for Poetry, and a Common wealth Club of California Medal for Poetry. He lives with his wife, Victoria, in Los Angeles and is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.