The Earth Avails: Poems

Wunderlich, Mark

ISBN 10: 1555976662 / ISBN 13: 9781555976668

Verlag: Graywolf Press, 2014

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1555976662-3-35635327

Inhaltsangabe:

The anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry "reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths" (The New Yorker)

A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week

With your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulled
the woolen shawl around me while I slept.

That the lightning struck the willow
and did not fall—for this I am grateful.
—from "Heaven-Letter"

The Earth Avails evokes an all-but-lost history, when every setting, thought, and action was imbued with ritual: here's the prayer said in a time of sickness; here's the blessing spoken upon entering the house; here's the letter from heaven that protects its holder from harm and misfortune. Rendered in part from folkloric and historical sources, Mark Wunderlich's poems reinvent these traditions with lyrical and emotive force for a new century of readers.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Mark Wunderlich is the author of two previous poetry collections, Voluntary Servitude and The Anchorage, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He teaches at Bennington College and lives in upstate New York.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Earth Avails: Poems
Verlag: Graywolf Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good