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A Mind of Winter

Poems for a Snowy Season

Selected by: Robert Atwan Introduction by: Donald Hall Illustrated by: Thomas Nason

A Mind of Winter collects thirty-two of the most moving poems on the experience of winter, from the great classics-James Russell Lowell’s “The First Snow-Fall” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s “Snow-Bound“-to the more contemporary, free-form, and diverse-Rafael Campo’s “Begging for Change in Winter” and Rosanna Warren’s “Snow Day.”

Contributors include: Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, Richard Wilbur, Amy Lowell, Charles Simic, James Merrill, Maxine Kumin, and more

A Mind of Winter

Poems for a Snowy Season

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