Alive
New and Selected Poems
Published on 14. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-59017-864-5 (ISBN)
Description
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty years. With a wild and inquisitive lyricism, Willis-"one of the most outstanding poets of her generation" (Susan Howe)-draws us into intricate patterns of thought and feeling. The intimate and civic address of these poems is laced with subterranean affinities among painters, botanists, politicians, witches and agitators. Coursing through this work is the clarity and resistance of a world that asks the poem to rise to this, to speak its fury.
American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty years. With a wild and inquisitive lyricism, Willis-"one of the most outstanding poets of her generation" (Susan Howe)-draws us into intricate patterns of thought and feeling. The intimate and civic address of these poems is laced with subterranean affinities among painters, botanists, politicians, witches and agitators. Coursing through this work is the clarity and resistance of a world that asks the poem to rise to this, to speak its fury.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59017-864-5 (9781590178645)
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Elizabeth Willis is the author of Address (2011), which received the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize, and four previous books of poetry. Her second book, The Human Abstract (1995), and her collection Alive: New and Selected Poems was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A recent Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she teaches at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop.