The Earth Avails: Poems

Wunderlich, Mark

ISBN 10: 1555976662 / ISBN 13: 9781555976668

Edité par Graywolf Press, 2014

N° de réf. du vendeur 1555976662-3-35635327

Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Earth Avails: Poems
Éditeur : Graywolf Press
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good