Something Shining: Poems - Rilegato

Halpern, Daniel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375407332 ISBN 13: 9780375407338

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

In the first new volume of poetry in seven years, the distinguished poet looks at the physical, emotional, and intellectual effects of aging from the perspective of the midpoint of life.

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L'autore:

Daniel Halpern was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1945 and has lived in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, and Tangier, Morocco. The author of seven previous collections of poems, Halpern is editorial director of The Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. He has received many grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Halpern divides his time between New York City and Princeton, New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ed for his earlier collections, Daniel Halpern has grown steadily in stature and attainment. Now, with Something Shining, his first collection of new poems in seven years, he gives us an ambitious, wide-ranging meditation on birth, love, and maturity, marking a turning point in both his life and his work.

These beautifully crafted poems explore relations between lovers, between friends, between fathers and children. Written by the light of a young daughter's presence, in the distinctive lyrical language that Ted Hughes described as "so free and effortless and unerring," these poems ponder the fading of the body and the struggle that consciousness wages to keep the self afloat. And into this intimate world also enter a surprising array of characters: ancient Chinese poets and modern Cuban musicians, Charlie Parker, Chekhov, and the dervish mystic Rumi. But it is the poet's awareness of his own frailty ("the days run out--no longer oneself," he writes in &q

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375407332
• ISBN 13: 9780375407338
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 83