Joyful Orphan: Poems - Couverture souple

Irwin, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1647790948 ISBN 13 : 9781647790943

Editeur : University of Nevada Press, 2023

Synopsis

Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin’s elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted. Irwin’s poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful.

Excerpt from “Letter”
Times when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud
just as when we touch a body or door, or think
of the dead come back, romancing
us through the warp of memory, lighting a way
by luring . . .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Irwin is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including his most recently published work, Shimmer. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, and Paris Review. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, two Colorado Book Awards, four Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and NEA. A professor in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California, he lives in Los Angeles and rural Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nevada Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1647790948
• ISBN 13: 9781647790943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 81
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