Startled at the Big Sound
Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural
Published on 1. March 2017
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-0-88146-617-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first prose collection by Stephen Corey, published poet and one of the US's most highly regarded literary editors. These essays, written across three decades, describe, analyse, and meditate upon his concurrent lives as family member, writer, editor for a literary journal, and cultural-political observer of the broader world within which he has lived while experiencing his smaller realms.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88146-617-1 (9780881466171)
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Person
Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length poetry collections, among them There is no Finished World (White Pine Press), and six chapbooks. His poems and essays have appeared in dozens of periodicals, and he has coedited four anthologies, most recently Stories Wanting Only To Be Heard: Selected Fiction From Six Decades Of The Georgia Review. Born in Buffalo, New York, and reared in nearby Jamestown, Corey is editor of The Georgia Review, where he has worked since 1983.