Powers and Boundaries
Poems
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-8071-3000-1 (ISBN)
Description
Thomas Reiter's new book of poems demonstrates faith in the ability of the human voice to shape memory -- its powers and boundaries, freedoms and limitations -- into enduring form. A variety of speakers and locales flourish on these pages, including invented, historical, contemporary, and familial figures, and settings in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, West Virginia coal mines and Idaho silver mines, prairies, Mississippi River Valley, and islands of the Caribbean. The voices herein, many of them marginalized, passionately define themselves in the face of elemental forces as well as a personal and cultural past. Their stories form an interplay of impasse and minor epiphany; botanical lore grounds their lives. The language of these poems reflects Reiter's trademark clarity, authenticity of tone and detail, and aptness of expression but also reaches a new level of wit, urgency, and descriptive power.
Reviews / Votes
"Probably the finest poet-botanizer since Robert Frost. [He] can read a landscape and name what's there." - Brendar Galvin, Tar-River Poetry"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-3000-1 (9780807130001)
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Person
Thomas Reiter was born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1940. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Loras College in 1962 and went on to receive his master's degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1963, and his doctorate degree in English from the University of Massachusetts in 1970. He is a professor of English and Wayne D. McMurry Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University, where he has taught since 1968. He lives in Neptune, New Jersey. Reiter is the author of ten poetry collections, among them: Powers and Boundaries, Pearly Everlasting, Crossovers, and River Route. He has received many awards for his work, including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Daily News Poetry Prize from the Caribbean Writer, and the Appalachia Poetry Prize. He has also received poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.