Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens's Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s.

Harmonium was Wallace Stevens' first book, and contains much of the poet's finest work, bright with the strange brilliance for which he is remembered.

About the Author
Wallace Stevens, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, was born in 1879. He studied at Harvard and worked briefly as a journalist, before going on to study law. In 1908 he began working for the legal department of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity insurance company, in Connecticut, of which he became vice-president in 1934. He died in Hartford in 1955.


Book Information
ISBN 9780571207794
Author Wallace Stevens
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 190g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 131mm * 12mm