Lake by Rosanna Warren | Resources

Lake For Further Reading

Clark, Eleanor, The Oysters of Locmariaquer, 1965, reprint, Ecco Press, 1998.

This travelogue earned Warren's mother, Eleanor Clark, a National Book Award in 1965. It explores life in the town of Locmariaquer in Brittany, a region in southern France where Warren spent part of her childhood. Clark focuses on the lives of the people who cultivate the famous Belon oysters that come from this region as well as the history of the area.

Simic, Charles, “Difference in Similarity,” in New York Review of Books, Vol. 51, No. 4, March 11, 2004, pp. 21-23.

In this review, the poet and critic Simic addresses the wide variety of style and content found in contemporary American poetry. Claiming “it is no longer easy to stick labels on poets,” he focuses on three new collections in particular, including Departure.

Warren, Robert Penn, The Collected Poems of...
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