Times Three is a celebration of 300 of Phyllis McGinley's best poems, specially chosen by the author herself for this volume. Written over a period of three decades, they represent the whole range of her deft, delightful, wise, and inimitable verse.
In these poems, under the casual lightness, the gay good nature, the sly digs at human foibles including her own, lurks a woman who is astonishingly knowing. Her technical craft, so much admired by other poets and by critics of all ranks, is a part of her appeal; perhaps it lies more in her knack of striking sparks from the common-place, drawing poetic overtones from scenes all of us recognize. TIMES THREE is a must-have
for all poetry buffs-a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of impeccable verse by one of the most distinguished American poets of our time.