The Earth Avails: Poems

Wunderlich, Mark

ISBN 10: 1555976662 / ISBN 13: 9781555976668

Editore: Graywolf Press, 2014

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly! Codice articolo DBV.1555976662.G

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull?autore:

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.

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Titolo: The Earth Avails: Poems
Casa editrice: Graywolf Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good