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review The Owner of the House New Collected Poems 1940 2001 Free read Ô PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook î Louis Simpson Louis Simpson î 4 Free read And at Columbia University Louis Simpson has taught widely most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry the Hudson Review the Guggenheim Foundation and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poet. These are for the most part good poems Impressively cynical and lean I love The Redwoods and Country Doctor Another In the Suburbs is so short and depressing it gives a good idea of Simpson s styleThere s no way outYou were born to waste your lifeYou were born to this middleclass lifeAs others before youWere born to walk in processionTo the temple singingYou get the drift Regardless of the author s cynicism I enjoyed most of the poems uite a bit Even the poems I didn t care for always had a bit or two that I thought pretty wonderful