| Author: | Wayne Miller | ISBN: | 9781571318305 |
| Publisher: | Milkweed Editions | Publication: | October 11, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Milkweed Editions | Language: | English |
| Author: | Wayne Miller |
| ISBN: | 9781571318305 |
| Publisher: | Milkweed Editions |
| Publication: | October 11, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Milkweed Editions |
| Language: | English |
A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city-past, present, and future-ring out with urgency. These poems-in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful-give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city-past, present, and future-ring out with urgency. These poems-in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful-give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city-past, present, and future-ring out with urgency. These poems-in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful-give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city-past, present, and future-ring out with urgency. These poems-in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful-give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
