Open House

Name: Open House
Author: Theodore Roethke

About the author

American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Waking in 1954. His greenhouse poems in The Lost Son are a major contribution to American nature poetry, and his long poems show a debt to Whitman and Dylan Thomas.

More by Theodore Roethke

The Lost SonMystical poems exploring childhood regression and poetic rebirth
The WakingPoems on mortality and waking, including villanelle of the same name
Words for the WindLove poems and lyrics celebrating sensuality and human connection
The Far FieldLate poems on aging, mortality, and journeys through landscape