The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001, Paperback

National Book Awards

Poetry

A major poetry collection by one of America's most widely acclaimed poets, published in his eightieth Year

Educated at Munro College (Jamaica, West Indies) and at Columbia where he received his doctorate, Louis Simpson has taught at various universities. The author of seventeen books of poetry, he has received the Rome Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Hudson Review Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and the Pulitzer Prize.