Conrad Aiken

Biography

Conrad Aiken (1869-1973) was born in Savannah, Georgia.  He received the 1954 National Book Award in poetry for Collected Poems (Oxford University Press) and served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952.

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POETRY / Spring 1934

Prelude

By Conrad Aiken

Or else a room, and in the room five voices speaking at once and what delicious babble “sherbet” and “velvet” and “purple” and “fragrant” and “loud”—

POETRY / Autumn 1935

Prelude

By Conrad Aiken

As if you were a child again; you smooth
a little space of sand, with careful fingers
pick out a twig, a stone, a scrap of paper,

Autumn 1932

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

By Conrad Aiken
POETRY / Summer 1931

Prelude

By Conrad Aiken
Spring 1945

Mayflower

By Conrad Aiken