The Darker Fall
Poems
Will be published approx. on 14. November 2002
Book
Hardback
84 pages
978-1-889330-74-7 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.
"Barot's mature linguistic skills really come down to a metaphorical and musical intelligence that refuses to value one element over another, that will not let the language or the longing take over."-From the Foreword by Stanley Plumly
"This is a book of lyric wonders: wit that turns dark, darkness that blazes up again in music and story."-Eavan Boland Rick Barot is currently Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. He was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Wesleyan University, the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and Stanford, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
"Barot's mature linguistic skills really come down to a metaphorical and musical intelligence that refuses to value one element over another, that will not let the language or the longing take over."-From the Foreword by Stanley Plumly
"This is a book of lyric wonders: wit that turns dark, darkness that blazes up again in music and story."-Eavan Boland Rick Barot is currently Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. He was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Wesleyan University, the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and Stanford, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Louisville
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 158 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-889330-74-7 (9781889330747)
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Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay. His first book, The Darker Fall, was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry published by Sarabande. In 2001, he received a poetry fellowship from the NEA. He currently teaches at Warren Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University.