Snowdrops 1987 (3/5/87, U)

  Solitaire (6/54, U)

  Solitary Pond, The (11/6/60, T&T)

  Some Frenchmen (7/10/63, M)

  Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring, The (1/4/86, U)

  Somewhere (4/15/86, U)

  Song of Paternal Care, A (11/9/59, TP)

  Song of the Open Fireplace (10/4/54, CH)

  Sonic Boom (6/9/59, TP)

  Sonnet to Man-Made Grandeur (4/15/86, U)

  South of the Alps (5/17/69, T&T)

  Spanish Sonnets (4/29/77, FN)

  Spring Song (5?/82, FN)

  Squirrels Mating (10/25/87, U)

  Story of My Life, The (p. 11/5/55, CH)

  Stunt Flier, The (6/19/61, TP)

  Styles of Bloom (5/30/82, FN)

  Suburban Madrigal (2/23/59, TP)

  Summer: West Side (6/6/60, TP)

  Sunday (1/13/72, T&T)

  Sunday in Boston (7/31/75, T&T)

  Sunday Rain (9/8/70, T&T)

  Sunflower (8/30/54, CH)

  Sunglasses (4/55, CH)

  Sunshine on Sandstone (6/19/61, M)

  Superman (7/16/55, CH)

  Switzerland (4/14/85, U)

  Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers (p. 8/18/56, CH)

  Taste (6/11/79, FN)

  Tax-Free Encounter (5/16/56, CH)

  Tbilisi (11/64,M)

  Telephone Poles (6/20/59, TP)

  Thin Air (9/25/90, U)

  Thoughts While Driving Home (5/17/59, TP)

  3 A.M. (6/14/58, TP)

  Time’s Fool (7/55, CH)

  To a Box Turtle (5/23/89, U)

  To a Dead Flame (8/21/91, U)

  To an Usherette (5/55, CH)

  To a Waterbed (6/72, T&T)

  To Crystallization (4/84, FN)

  To Ed Sissman (9/20/77, FN)

  To Evaporation (3/84, FN)

  To Fragmentation (3/84, FN)

  Tome-Thoughts, from the Times (6/10/59, TP)

  Toothache Man (6/58, TP)

  Topsfield Fair (9/25/67, M)

  Tossing and Turning (11/17/69, T&T)

  Touch of Spring (2/23/72, T&T)

  Trees Eat Sunshine (8/22/59, TP)

  Tropical Beetles (2/60, TP)

  Tsokadze O Altitudo (2/8/56, CH)

  Tulsa (12/7/87, U)

  Tune, in American Type (9/20/56, CH)

  Two Hoppers (8/20/82, FN)

  Two Limericks for the Elderly (3/20/87, U)

  Two Sonnets Whose Titles Came to Me Simultaneously (9/8–9/82, FN)

  Typical Optical (10/28/79, FN)

  Upon Learning That a Bird Exists Called the Turnstone (4/4/58, TP)

  Upon Learning That a Town Exists in Virginia Called Upperville (3/29/61, TP)

  Upon Looking into Sylvia Plath’s Letters Home (3/24/92, U)

  Upon Shaving Off One’s Beard (2/24/70, T&T)

  Upon the Last Day of His Forty-Ninth Year (3/19/81, FN)

  V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick (1/28/55, CH)

  Vermont (9/5/60, TP)

  Vibration (5/3/62, TP)

  Vision, A (10/13/60, U)

  Visions of Mackenzie King, The (2/8/79, FN)

  Vow (1/21/64, M)

  Waiting Rooms (10/21/77, 4/18/78, FN)

  Wash (7/19/60, TP)

  Washington (12/18/67, M)

  Washington: Tourist View (3/14/88, U)

  White Dwarf (5/8/62, TP)

  Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles Are Cracked and Crooked (7?/53 [p. 10/53], CH)

  Widener Library, Reading Room (2/7/62, U)

  Wind (11/4/71, T&T)

  Winter Ocean (11/9/59, TP)

  Within a Quad [Idyll] (1/59, TP)

  Wooden Darning Egg, A (12/55, CH)

  Working Outdoors in Winter (1/26/90, U)

  Yerevan (11/64, M)

  Young Matrons Dancing (4/4/60, FN)

  You Who Swim (5/3/75, T&T)

  Youth’s Progress (12/2/54, CH)

  ZIP Code Ode (8/6/86, U)

  Zoo Bats (4/9/90, U)

  ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE (9/11/57, TP)

  A Note About the Author

  John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

  Books by John Updike

  POEMS

  The Carpentered Hen (1958) • Telephone Poles (1963) • Midpoint (1969) • Tossing and Turning (1977) • Facing Nature (1985) • Collected Poems 1953–1993 • Americana (2001) • Endpoint (2009)

  NOVELS

  The Poorhouse Fair (1959) • Rabbit, Run (1960) • The Centaur (1963) • Of the Farm (1965) • Couples (1968) • Rabbit Redux (1971) • A Month of Sundays (1975) • Marry Me (1976) • The Coup (1978) • Rabbit Is Rich (1981) • The Witches of Eastwick (1984) • Roger’s Version (1986) • S. (1988) • Rabbit at Rest (1990) • Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) • Brazil (1994) • In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) • Toward the End of Time (1997) • Gertrude and Claudius (2000) • Seek My Face (2002) • Villages (2004) • Terrorist (2006) • The Widows of Eastwick (2008)

  SHORT STORIES

  The Same Door (1959) • Pigeon Feathers (1962) • Olinger Stories (a selection, 1964) • The Music School (1966) • Bech: A Book (1970) • Museums and Women (1972) • Problems and Other Stories (1979) • Too Far to Go (a selection, 1979) • Bech Is Back (1982) • Trust Me (1987) • The Afterlife (1994) • Bech at Bay (1998) • Licks of Love (2000) • The Complete Henry Bech (2001) • The Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2003) • My Father’s Tears (2009) • The Maple Stories (2009)

  ESSAYS AND CRITICISM

  Assorted Prose (1965) • Picked-Up Pieces (1975) • Hugging the Shore (1983) • Just Looking (1989) • Odd Jobs (1991) • Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf (1996) • More Matter (1999) • Still Looking (2005) • Due Considerations (2007) • Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (2010) • Higher Gossip (2011)

  PLAY

  Buchanan Dying (1974)

  MEMOIRS

  Self-Consciousness (1989)

  CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  The Magic Flute (1962) • The Ring (1964) • A Child’s Calendar (1965) • Bottom’s Dream (1969) • A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (1996)

 


 

  John Updike, Collected Poems, 1953-1993

 


 

 
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