The World As Is
New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015
Published on 1. October 2016
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-63045-037-3 (ISBN)
Description
In THE WORLD AS IS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, 1972-2015, Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison gives voice to pain and passion, sorrow and joy, longing and exaltation. His poems seem to result from a wrestling with angels-the angels of transformation we all must confront to survive what Robert Penn Warren called "this century, and moment, of mania." This poetry, dark as it can be, is also filled with compassion for the wounded psyche, the torn family, the persistence of nature, the gift of deep love, and the healing power of art. These poems sing with a sensuousness born of experience, insisting that there is more to everything than meets the eye. As Paul Éluard put it, "There is another world, but it is in this one." The world as is.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
11 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63045-037-3 (9781630450373)
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Joseph Hutchison is the author of 19 poetry collections, including The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015, Marked Men, and the Colorado Poetry Award-winning Bed of Coals. He served as Colorado Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2019 and currently directs the Professional Creative Writing graduate program at the University of Denver's University College.