The Far Field (poetry collection)

The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.^[1]

The book is divided into four sections: "North American Sequence", "Love Poems", "Mixed Sequence", and "Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical".^[2] The Far Field contains several of Roethke's best known works, including the title poem "The Far Field", "Meditation at Oyster River", "Journey to the Interior", and "The Rose".^[1] It received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1965.^[3]

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References

• Balakian, Peter (1999-03-01). Theodore Roethke's Far Fields: The Evolution of His Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124543.
• Quetchenbach, Bernard W. (2000-01-01). Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813919546.
• McCorkle, James (1990-01-01). Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814321003.
• Parini, Jay (2017). "Theodore Roethke". In Noel-Tod, Jeremy; Hamilton, Ian. The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199640254. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
• Southworth, James G. (February 1966). "Theodore Roethke: The Far Field". College English. 27 (5): 413–418. JSTOR 373265.

Further reading

• Roethke, Theodore (1964). The Far Field. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385046923.