
Liquid Paper
New and Selected Poems
Peter Meinke(Author)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Will be published approx. on 17. December 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-8229-5455-2 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in "the new formalism." His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.
Reviews / Votes
The threats beneath attractive surfaces and the uncertain security of the outwardly contented are topics rarely treated in poems as healthy as Meinke's; his voice is knowledgeable and reassuring. * <i>Poetry Magazine</i> * Meinke is a skilled craftsman. He is especially adept at building to a strong ending or the ending that shies the poem into an unexpected, but perfect place. He also has the most endearing sense of humopr, the ability to laugh at himself. * Judith Hemschmeyer * Like Whitman, who claimed that the smallest sprout of grass 'Shows there is really no death,' Meinke is at heart a celebrator of a vital and joyous existence. * <i>The Nashville Tennessean</i> * If you are one of the millions who is bored, perplexed or overawed by contemporary poetry, do the muse, and yourself, a favor: Buy and read Peter Meinke's new book. * <i>The St. Petersburg Times</i> * Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in 'the new formalism.' His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. * <i>Poetry Pilot</i> *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-5455-2 (9780822954552)
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08/2014
Princeton University Press
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Person
Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published seven prior books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.