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Coyle, Bill

 
9781566637107: The God of This World to His Prophet: Poems

Synopsis

The sixth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Bill Coyles The God of This World to His Prophet. Mr. Coyles first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered trappings of an often hard-bitten and desolate world and the larger, more elusive questions of belief. Shifting easily through registers of sober reflection, gentle satire, and even outright humor, his poems encompass landscape and dramatic situation with equal skill. Decoding the import in a stand of leafless trees or recounting the melancholy ruminations of a solitary figure in winter, Mr. Coyle finds imaginings / projected on a darkened world of things. Also included are a number of poems translated from the Swedish that dovetail seamlessly with the authors own sensibility and concerns. His virtuosic mastery of prosodic forms, far from occluding his deeply felt subjects, reveals them to us with great force and immediacy. As Mr. Coyle puts it with characteristic precision and grace, Artifice, at its heart, is the human touch describing / lucidly what the world, stripped to its essence, is.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bill Coyle's poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Hudson Review, The New Criterion, the New Republic, and Poetry. He is a translator from the Swedish, and his versions of the poet Håkan Sandell have appeared in PN Review and Ars Interpres and are forthcoming in the anthology The Other Side of Landscape. Mr. Coyle teaches in the English Department at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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