John Hollander's -Blue Wine and Other Poems, - his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, -Spectral Emanations, - shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career.
Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of life and art, are balanced against a graceful lyric cycle, which is itself a commentary on the meaning of art songs. The longer poems in this volume---Blue Wine, - -Monuments, - -The Train, - and -Just for the Ride---move beyond...
John Hollander's -Blue Wine and Other Poems, - his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, -Spectral Emanatio...
In Wyatt Prunty's poetry, familiar things and places, old things and new things, lost things, lost faces are recovered and illumined by a language both skewed and precise.--Walker Percy. (Poetry)
In Wyatt Prunty's poetry, familiar things and places, old things and new things, lost things, lost faces are recovered and illumined by a language bot...
This second collection by award-winning poet Philip Dacey runs the gamut from existential mysteries to domestic dramas. Dacey writes in both traditional and free verse forms, and organizes these selections into four sections whose focus gradually shifts from the inexplicable phenomena of -apple-doors- to the cultural otherworldliness of a foreign country, in -Spanish artifacts-. The third section, -nipples rise to spirit-, traces a child's growth to middle age, with particular reference to sex and family, while -the presence of Presence- redefines the religious experience.
This second collection by award-winning poet Philip Dacey runs the gamut from existential mysteries to domestic dramas. Dacey writes in both tradit...
In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson stands at the edge of his Jersey waterfall and knows that 'good balance is belief.' Poising and counterpoising themselves in settings at once fixed and erosive, the people in these poems move through 'one long revisionary river that curls back against itself, as if the only way to move ahead was by...
In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike amo...
The author of -Eelgrass- and -The Kentucky Stories- now offers a collection of -mysterious and beautiful- (Lee Smith) stories, -as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen- (Toby Olson).
The author of -Eelgrass- and -The Kentucky Stories- now offers a collection of -mysterious and beautiful- (Lee Smith) stories, -as subtle, syntacti...
"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy".--"New York Times Book Review".
"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fant...
Home is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague priests, of flinty teachers, of parents distant and irascible. Hungering for some better place, these sons and daughters of New England follow very different paths, and make very different - often shattering - discoveries.
Home is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect toleranc...
A collection of 18 short stories by a very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination (Times Literary Supplement).
A collection of 18 short stories by a very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape...
