Balance As Belief

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson stands at the edge of his Jersey waterfall and knows that 'good balance is belief.' Poising and counterpoising themselves in settings at once fixed and erosive, the people in these poems move through 'one long revisionary river that curls back against itself, as if the only way to move ahead was by deflecting back.'

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Utgivningsdatum1989-09-26
Mått152 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt170 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJohns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Antal sidor88
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801838941

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Wyatt Prunty is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, also published by Johns Hopkins. His critical studies include Fallen from the Symboled World and a forthcoming collection of essays focused on poetry since World War II. He is the founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference and holds the Carlton Chair in poetry at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has served as the general editor of the Sewanee Writers' Series, edited Sewanee Writers on Writing, and directs the Tennessee Williams Fellowship program. He is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, the two most recent being fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations.

John Hollander, "Blue Wine" and Other PoemsRobert Pack, Waking to My Name: New and Selected PoemsPhilip Dacey, The Boy Under the BedWyatt Prunty, The Times BetweenBarry Spacks, Spacks Street: New and Selected PoemsGibbons Ruark, Keeping CompanyDavid St. John, HushWyatt Prunty, What Women Know, What Men BelieveAdrien Stoutenberg, Land of Superior Mirages: New and Selected PoemsJohn Hollander, In Time and PlaceCharles Martin, Steal the BaconJohn Bricuth, The Heisenberg VariationsTom Disch, Yes, Let's: New and Selected PoemsWyatt Prunty, Balance as Belief