The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

An acclaimed collection of poetry from one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, the author of the Rabbit series.

As a present to John Updike on his fiftieth birthday, and as a treat for his readers, his first book, a collection of light verse originally published twenty-five years ago, was brought back into print, with an author’s foreword and some small revisions.

Many of these poems were written when the author was a young art student in England and a “Talk of the Town...