Alive: New and Selected Poems (NYRB Poets) - Softcover

Book 9 of 36: NYRB Poets

Willis, Elizabeth

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9781590178645: Alive: New and Selected Poems (NYRB Poets)
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ISBN 10: 1590178645 ISBN 13: 9781590178645
Publisher: NYRB Poets, 2015

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty years. With a wild and inquisitive lyricism, Willis—“one of the most outstanding poets of her generation” (Susan Howe)—draws us into intricate patterns of thought and feeling. The intimate and civic address of these poems is laced with subterranean affinities among painters, botanists, politicians, witches and agitators. Coursing through this work is the clarity and resistance of a world that asks the poem to rise to this, to speak its fury.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Willis is the author of Address (2011), which received the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize, and four previous books of poetry. Her second book, The Human Abstract (1995), and her collection Alive: New and Selected Poems was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A recent Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she teaches at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop.

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Publisher
NYRB Poets
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1590178645
ISBN 13 
9781590178645
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208
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  • 3.90 out of 5 stars
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