The collected works of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer explores her transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined.

Includes index.

Firstborn --(1968) -- The house on marshland -- (1975) -- Descending figure -- (1980) -- The triumph of Achilles -- (1985) -- Ararat -- (1990) -- The wild iris -- (1992) -- Meadowlands -- (1996) -- Vita nova -- (1999) -- The seven ages -- (2001) -- Averno -- (2006) -- A village life -- (2009).