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The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.) Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet's work. Thomas wrote "Prologue" addressed to "my readers, the strangers" -- an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write....

"The Sensory Life" is my attempt to reawaken a common interest in poetry. I feel that although there is a passing interest amongst a small crowd, poetry has been forgotten by the majority of the people who might benefit the most from it. I've been writing the poems in this book since I was 4 and the first poem in the book was written at that age. I intended to follow what I believe to be the life cycle of a person. I focus on our nature, birth, growth and learning, love, heartbreak, darkest hour and eventual death. In this book you'll find poems and commentary (in the form of end notes) to...