Watch Fire - Softcover

Merrill, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877727431 ISBN 13: 9781877727436

Verlag: White Pine Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Merrill Christopher

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Reseña del editor:

This is a collection including poems from Christopher Merrill's first two books as well as later poems. It concludes with his exquisite long poem 'Luck', which begins "For those not born to wealth or royalty, / Luck's a language learned by fits and starts". Merrill treats the fickleness of fate -- and humanity's attempts to define fate -- with both poignancy and humour. His imagery enters the mind like a new dialect, not with trite or cliched metaphors, but startling and uncommon word pictures that heighten the mood as well as the senses, such as in 'The Rope': "Your eyes, when you turn away, burn black -- before you disappear, / leaving on the sidewalk a trail of charcoal". Merrill's art is for those who love uniqueness in poetry.

Biografía del autor:

Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; several edited volumes and works in translation; and four books of nonfiction. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

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• Verlag: White Pine Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1877727431
• ISBN 13: 9781877727436
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192