Reign of Snakes: Poems (Penguin Poets) - Softcover

Wrigley, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140589198 ISBN 13: 9780140589191

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Described by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995), "To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift." Reign of Snakes takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, "where the dark blows a kiss to night."

. . . a frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil.

--from "Reign of Snakes"

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Robert Wrigley is a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. His sixth and most recent book, Lives of the Animals, won the 2004 Poets’ Prize.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140589198
• ISBN 13: 9780140589191
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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