← Theodore RoethkeThe Wakingby Theodore RoethkePoems on mortality and waking, including villanelle of the same nameFind on Amazon↗About the authorTheodore RoethkeAmerican 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 RoethkeOpen House→The Lost SonMystical poems exploring childhood regression and poetic rebirth→Words for the WindLove poems and lyrics celebrating sensuality and human connection→The Far FieldLate poems on aging, mortality, and journeys through landscape→