Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge by Delmore Schwartz.
Delmore Schwartz's selected poems gather a body of work first published in this form as Summer Knowledge. The collection offers a way to encounter the poet across individual pieces rather than through the outline of his later life.
Read the poems before the biography becomes an explanation for them. Their range invites a discussion of what a selection reveals about a writer's recurring concerns and what any selection necessarily leaves out.
