A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

by Nancy Willard

Book by Willard, Nancy

Genres: Poetry

232 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1991

About the author

NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She wrote dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She also authored two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lived with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the poetry far more than the short stories. The poems about Blake were beautiful.

[Cooper Renner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I suppose I like best the formal poems, but she was a deft and emotive writer with a sensibility perhaps not unlike Annie Dillard’s (though I haven’t read much Dillard and that long ago).