McKuen, Rod

Overview

Works:	634 works in 1,141 publications in 4 languages and 25,228 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Film adaptations Biography Drama Historical films Fiction Romance films Interviews Television interviews Nonfiction television programs
Roles:	Author, Performer, Composer, Producer, Lyricist, Singer, Editor, Narrator, Adapter, Writer of accompanying material, Translator, Originator, Conductor, Creator, wst, Arranger, Recording engineer

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Rod McKuen

Finding my father : one man's search for identity by Rod McKuen( Book )
Love's been good to me by Rod McKuen( Book )
Rock Hudson/Rod McKuen: first recordings, London, March 1970 by David Nutter( Book )
Another beautiful day : the 1985 Rod McKuen book of days, datebook & diary by Rod McKuen( Book )
The now-generation poet : a conversation with celebrity Rod McKuen( Recording )

Rod McKuen : [concert program], 1975( Book )
The Rod McKuen show : [concert program], 1973, Adelaide Festival Theatre( Book )
Rod McKuen : [concert program], 1980, Adelaide Festival Theatre( Book )
Stanyan news( )
McKuen, Rod : composer, author, singer by Authors and Publishers American Society of Composers( )
Leonard Rosenman wins Oscar by Joe Messinger( Visual )
[Poet and songwriter, Rod McKuen, talks about poetry, taking the hard road, being illegitimate, and growing up with only four years of formal education] by Rod McKuen( Recording )
The songs of Rod McKuen by Rod McKuen( Book )
The McKuen mystique : on the popularity of Rod McKuen by Jack W Estes( )
[Rod McKuen is amazed at what stories are selected and rejected for coverage on TV news. On the Today Show] by Rod McKuen( Recording )
Rod McKuen and the mass media: an analysis and commentary by Thomas Gray Bennett( )
I think of you Glenn Yarbrough sings Rod McKuen by Glenn Yarbrough( )
Bennett Cerf papers by Bennett Cerf( )
Through European windows : Rod McKuen( Book )
Mc Kuen, Rod by Irwin Stambler( )

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Most widely held works by Rod McKuen

Listen to the warm by Rod McKuen( Book )

21 editions published between 1966 and 1973 in English and Dutch and held by 2,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Collection of autobiographical and lyrical poetry by this contemporary American chansonnier

Stanyan Street & other sorrows by Rod McKuen( Book )

28 editions published between 1954 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows is divided into five segments and an autobiographical poem. Included are Stanyan Street, Kearney Street, The Yellow Unicorn, and a selection of lyrics from songs and poems written as early as 1954."--Goodreads.com

Lonesome cities by Rod McKuen( Book )

20 editions published between 1965 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,531 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Love poems that details a man's journey around the world in an attempt to find himself

In someone's shadow by Rod McKuen( Book )

14 editions published between 1969 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 1,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rod McKuen was a best selling American poet, composer, and singer. Instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s

Fields of wonder by Rod McKuen( Book )

12 editions published between 1970 and 1975 in English and held by 1,017 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The celebrated contemporary poet shares his thoughts and emotions about life and love

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark( Visual )

10 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on Muriel Spark's best-selling novel, the film earned a 1969 Best Actress Oscar for its star Maggie Smith. An inspiration to the young girls she teaches, and a challenge to the 1932 Edinburgh school which retains her services, the headstrong Jean Brodie (Smith) encourages fiercely independent thinking in her 12 year-old charges, who she influences with her over-romanticised world view. As she engages in ongoing battles with the school's rigid heads and bewilders two men in love with her, Miss Brodie also faces the biggest trial of her life when her career and livelihood become threatened

And to each season by Rod McKuen( Book )

5 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Contemporary poet's thoughts on love, loneliness, and freedom mirror his own experiences and search for truth

Come to me in silence by Rod McKuen( Book )

13 editions published between 1973 and 1975 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Man's need to be understood is the dominant theme in this collection of works by the contemporary poet

We touch the sky by Rod McKuen( Book )

7 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thirty-six poems that complete McKuen's trilogy about the sea, earth, and sky

Twelve years of Christmas by Rod McKuen( Book )

6 editions published between 1966 and 1972 in English and held by 671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume of poems sent as Christmas cards to the poet's closest friends over a period of twelve years includes his "special words of Christmas : holidays spent not only near the holly and the ivy, but on Forty-second Street, in the fields and on the beach, in love, waiting for love."

The world of Rod McKuen by Rod McKuen( )

3 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twenty-two songs, all of a personal nature

Caught in the quiet by Rod McKuen( Book )

7 editions published between 1970 and 1973 in English and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sound of solitude by Rod McKuen( Book )

4 editions published in 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Written in diary form, the popular poet traces the slow unfolding of a love affair and the silence that follows the end of love

Moment to moment by Rod McKuen( Book )

11 editions published between 1972 and 1975 in English and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A DIARY IN VERSE OF THE POET'S EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES DURING VISITS TO HOLLAND AND MEXICO

Celebrations of the heart by Rod McKuen( Book )

5 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 534 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A mainly autobiographical collection of verse and prose pieces, centering on the double focus of present satisfactions and remembered pleasures

Valentines by Rod McKuen( Book )

2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The power bright and shining : images of my country by Rod McKuen( Book )

5 editions published in 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Coming close to the earth by Rod McKuen( Book )

5 editions published between 1977 and 1978 in English and held by 410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sea around me : [poems] by Rod McKuen( Book )

3 editions published between 1976 and 1977 in English and held by 408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of Rod McKuen's new poems about the sea

Suspension bridge by Rod McKuen( Book )

6 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 396 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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