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Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems Hardcover – March 25, 2014

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At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades.

With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop––one who balances an exploration of the underworld of desire with a mastery of poetic form, and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our “plundered hearts.” Now, opening with exquisite new poems––including the stunning “My Hand Collection,” a catalogue of art objects that steals up on the complexity of human touch, and a witty and profound poem entitled “My Robotic Prostatectomy”––this selection is a glorious full tour of McClatchy’s career. It includes excerpts from the powerful book-length sequence
Ten Commandments (1998) and his more recent works Hazmat (2002) and Mercury Dressing (2009)—books that explored the body’s melodrama, as well as the heart’s treacheries, grievances, and boundless capacities. All of his poems present a sumptuous weave of impassioned thought and clear-sighted feeling. He has been rightly hailed as a poet of “ferocious alertness,” one who elicits (says The New Leader) “the kind of wonder and joy we experience when the curtain comes down on a dazzling performance.”
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About the Author

J. D. McClatchy is the author of seven previous collections of poetry and of three collections of prose. He has edited numerous other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president from 2009 to 2012. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of The Yale Review.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2014
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385351518
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385351515
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2018
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    I am a latecomer to the poetry of J.D. McClatchy. And I regret that. I saw the indication of his death in Poetry magazine, by a poem by McClatchy, published in its pages at an earlier date, printed on the inside of the front cover, Poetry’s method of providing an elegiac honor to the deceased poet. I had just ordered and received this collection of McClatchy’s new and selected poems. As I read his poetry in this book, here and there, as one does when getting to know a writer’s work, and especially that of a poet, I found myself drawn in by this man’s graceful writing that draws shamelessly upon the poetic heritage of rhyme and of stanzaic structure, emboldening the use of elegant rhythm patterns and image creations. And this collection provides a great way of moving right into McClatchy’s work. Of course, Amazon made it easy by connecting me with a bookseller that was timely and careful, sending me this lovely collection even faster than I’d hoped for. So thank you all the way around.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014
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    McClatchy's new book is an absolute delight, one to savor and read and re-read. This volume includes highlights from previous works as well as new poems, stunning and clever translations, and poems inspired by music and musical forms. The selection of poems charts the course of a strong and rare poetic spirit, one that unabashedly explores preoccupations of the soul, meditates on the nature of friends and lovers, and turns finally to resignation and elegiac reflection. Among the new poems: "Wolf's Trees" is beautiful. Rapture and grief, longing and loneliness grow into a sanctuary of waiting trees, not so empty any more but satisfyingly unfilled like the "emptiness visible on leaves that come and go." "My Hand Collection" is powerful yet tender, exploring the human hand as a living documentary while holding on to the hardest of all letting gos (letting go of loved ones). The depth and beauty evoked by these poems can be found in the last lines from "Ovid's Farewell": "It comes to pass, the last change / As the first, from a stream of star-shot / Wonderment that falls down to our home on earth."
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2022
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    I’m sorry . I did not mean to cancel this order but rather the kindle of Isis novel, since I recently bought Isis two weeks ago and now again
    mistakenly. I still want the Plundered Hearts poems. I am very sorry. Daniel Collins
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016
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    Wide range of referenc, poems ranging from personal to historical.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2018
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