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.

The book is divided into four sections: "North American Sequence", "Love Poems", "Mixed Sequence", and "Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical". 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". It received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1965.

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. p. 29. ISBN 9780813919546. far field roethke.
• 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 (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199640256. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
• Southworth, James G. (February 1966). "Theodore Roethke: The Far Field". College English. 27 (5): 413–418. doi:10.2307/373265. JSTOR 373265.

Further reading

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