
Vertigo
Martha Ronk(Author)
Coffee House Press
Will be published approx. on 20. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
978-1-56689-205-6 (ISBN)
Description
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by C.D. Wright.
This visionary seventh collection by the PEN USA Award-winning poet pivots around uncertainties, mysteries, and the unexpected to find the language of the mind's theater. Melancholy and playful, analytic and lyrical, Vertigo immerses the reader in a dense realm of memory and multiple perspectives, repositioning our relations to daily life, the past, and the future.
This visionary seventh collection by the PEN USA Award-winning poet pivots around uncertainties, mysteries, and the unexpected to find the language of the mind's theater. Melancholy and playful, analytic and lyrical, Vertigo immerses the reader in a dense realm of memory and multiple perspectives, repositioning our relations to daily life, the past, and the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-205-6 (9781566892056)
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Ronk, who teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles, is the author of seven books of poetry including In a Landscape of Having to Repeat, winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award. Poems from Vertigo, a National Poetry Series winning collection selected by CD Wright, have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere.