Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems - Softcover

Williams, Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807133531 ISBN 13: 9780807133538

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it’s hard to be understood and make that look easy," he describes his own poetry perfectly. This latest effort from Williams provides a collection of rhythmical poems in conversational language about the nature of human beings and the world in which we live. In poems covering topics such as science, religion, and marriage, Williams displays in plentiful measures the qualities that have made him a cherished and long-admired poet: mordant and trenchant wit, expert, light-fingered technique, quick understanding of character, and skillful use of irony. In Time and the Tilting Earth, each poem, says the author, begins as the poet’s and ends as the reader’s.

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Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty-four books, including fourteen volumes of poetry, Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms, and Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It. Among his many honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship in Poetry from Harvard University, the Poets' Prize, the Prix de Rome for Literature, and the Academy Award for Literature, the latter two both from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was inaugural poet for Bill Clinton's second swearing-in as president, and he is the father of three-time Grammy Award- winning singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807133531
• ISBN 13: 9780807133538
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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