Books and Recordings

For a complete list of books and recordings, see Curriculum Vitae.

 

Weathers Permitting

Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2005.

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“Stephen Sandy's lovely new book confirms his position among the important poets of his generation and reveals once again the intense clarity of his language at all levels.”—John Hollander

 

Surface Impressions, A Poem in Eight Parts

Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2002.

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“This long poem summons up from a dozen scenes and climates the most satisfying achievement of Stephen Sandy’s witty, discerning, and flavored poetic sensibility.”—Peter Davison

 

Black Box

Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

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Black Box retrieves all sorts of crucial data. Sandy's poems have an infectious curiosity, a moral weight and witty balance. They speak from and to the heart.”—J.D. McClatchy

 

The Thread, New and Selected Poems

Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

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“Sandy's work just seems to me to be part of the wonderful music of life.”—Alan Cheuse

 

Thanksgiving Over the Water

New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1992; paper, 1994.

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“Sandy's work is almost always restrained, yet oddly comforting....With an academic resignation Sandy mourns lost and fading worlds....”Library Journal

 

Man in the Open Air

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

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“Stephen Sandy has all the technical mastery and all the heart to write a major poetry—a poetry that sounds like no other but is as familiar as breath...Man in the Open Air is his best book. It's remarkable and will remain so.”—Dave Smith

 

 

Riding to Greylock

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.

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“This deft fusion of contemporary language, even technical terms, with unabashed rhyme and alliteration results in stunning lyric verse.”—Library Journal

 

The Raveling of the Novel, Studies in Romantic Fiction from Walpole to Scott

New York: Arno Press, 1980.

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Roofs

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971.

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“Roofs is a deeply moving, finely wrought volume of poems. In Sandy's grave, brooding, highly individualized style, the sensibility of our moment is held (precariously but finely) in an epiphanic relation to the larger contexts of history and widely variant imaginative traditions.”—Harold Bloom

 

Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967.

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“This is a truthfully sensitive and strongly compassionate book. People who read poetry will return to poems like 'The Ballad of Mary Baldwin' and 'Her River' over and over again in years ahead.”—William Alfred

 

Vale of Academe, A Prose Poem for Bernard Malamud

(Pamphlet)

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene, 1996.

 

 

The Hawthorne Effect

(Pamphlet)

Lawrence, KS: Tansy Press, 1980.

 

The Difficulty

(Pamphlet)

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1975.

 

Japanese Room

(Pamphlet)

Providence, RI : Hellicoal Press, 1969.

 

The Destruction of Bullfinch's House

(Pamphlet)

Cambridge, MA : Identity, 1963.

 

Mary Baldwin

(Pamphlet)

Dublin, Ireland : Dolmen Press, 1962.

TIMEX: Poems of Stephen Sandy, read by the poet

(Compact disc. Music written and performed by Gokcen Ergene, Nadir Naqvi, Vuk Mitevski, and Nicole Pope.)

Bennington, VT : Dishwasher Studio, 2001.