Why We Have Evening - Couverture souple

Orr, Leonard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1934999903 ISBN 13 : 9781934999905

Editeur : Cherry Grove Collections, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Orr Leonard

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Leonard Orr is Professor of English at the Tri-Cities campus of Washington State University. He is the author or editor of thirteen books literary criticism or critical theory. His most recent books are Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism (Syracuse University Press, 2008), and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (Continuum, 2009). He was named the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English (2005-08). His poetry has appeared in many journals including Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Poetry International, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Isotope, Midwest Poetry Review, Pontoon, Rosebud, and Rocky Mountain Review. His poetry chapbook, Daytime Moon, was published in 2005 by FootHills Press. He was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was a semifinalist for the Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. He has been a featured reader in many venues throughout the state, and he has led poetry workshops at the Burning Word Poetry Festival and elsewhere. He hosts the open mic and featured poet events at Washington State University Tri-Cities and served as president of the Washington Poets Association for three years. In recent years, he has taken up painting abstracts and had his work featured in a solo-exhibition of fifty paintings in 2007. Both his poetry and painting utilize a similar aesthetic based in spontaneity, surprise, and passion.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The human body, heavenly bodies, an artist’s body of work: these are among the intertwining threads of Leonard Orr’s rich Why We Have Evening.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cherry Grove Collections
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934999903
• ISBN 13: 9781934999905
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 110