The Complete Poems

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Known primarily for novels and short stories, Ernest Hemingway was, in his youth, a poet. At a time when he declared the novel was dead (prior to reading close friend Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby) Hemingway was composing the short prose pieces that would make him famous. Another friend, T. S. Elliot, told Hemingway that he had real promise as a poet. Hemingway's first book included poetry, but such creative endeavors were abandoned just as Hemingway would abandon his condemnation of the novel.

In The Complete Poems, editor Nicholas Gerogiannis has compiled all the known poems Hemingway penned in his day. Though Hemingway stopped publishing poetry as his fame grew, he continued to write up until his death.