Marya Zaturenska was a major American poet in the early decades of the 20th century. Her work was hallmarked by a traditional lyric grace and penchant for artifice that led to her work being considered old fashioned and out of style by many of her literary peers, yet won her the 1937 Pulitzer Prize. She was 36 years old at the time. Now under the deft editorship of Robert Phillips who has also provided an informative introduction, New Selected Poems By Marya Zaturenska presents a gifted poetry to a new generation of readers and students of American literature and poetry. I Know An Island: I know an island, pale in the green sea/Where the Atlantic waves grow lost in mist,/Of delicate violet and pure amethyst,/Where the gray sea gulls rise monotonously.//Green, green the shoreline, rises cool and green,/Small purpling hills archaic and serene/Through lingering rains that fall deep, endlessly.//Step on this greenest, softest, dreamiest turf/To breathe the mystery this isle presents/And you shall hear the sound of violence/Subdued and hostile as the rising surf.//Saints, heroes, kings, and martyrs, waxed and waned/In this their ancient seat, gray-toned yet wild/In haggard beauty, subtle as a child,/How many times adored, subdued, profaned. ...