ISBN-13: 9780821416129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 61 str.
ISBN-13: 9780821416129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 61 str.
Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, The Optimist is the first book by a young poet whose work has been widely published in literary journals. As final judge James Cummins said, Mehigan accesses a tradition of voices - the echoes in The Optimist are, to name a few, of Frost, Robinson, Kees, and Justice; and more in terms of point of view, Bishop and Jarrell.