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His collections of poetry include Facing Nature: Poems, Collected Poems: 1953–1993, and Americana and Other Poems (2001). An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike also wrote poetry for most of his life. Growing up in Pennsylvania, his….
Acclaimed novelist John Updike wrote poetry for most of his life; learning his art from his mother. In one interview Updike stated, “I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form.”
Updike worked in a wide array of genres, including fiction, poetry (most of it compiled in Collected Poems: 1953–1993, 1993), essays (collected in nine separate volumes), a play (Buchanan Dying, 1974), and a memoir (Self-Consciousness, 1989).
with a submarine that trembles, its ladder stiffened by air. And loveliest, because least looked-for, gray on gray, the stripes. the pearl-white winter sun. hung low beneath the leafless wood. draws out from trunk to trunk across the road. like a stairway that does not rise. John Updike, “Penumbrae” from Collected Poems 1953-1993.
Marching Through A Novel. ‘Marching Through a Novel’ by John Updike is an allegorical narrative about the dynamic between a writer and their characters and the effect of rigid characterization on a novel. The poem uses strong military imagery to urge readers to view characters in a novel as real human beings.
His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench. It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though. Off work, he hangs around Mae’s Luncheonette. Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads. John Updike, “Ex-Basketball Player” from Collected Poems 1953-1993.
By John Updike. The spirit has infinite facets, but the body. confiningly few sides. There is the left, the right, the back, the belly, and tempting. in-betweens, northeasts and northwests, that tip the heart and soon pinch circulation. in one or another arm. Yet we turn each time.
