Time & Money Pa: New Poems – An Intelligent Verse Collection Exploring the Jazz and Ironies of American Life by the National Book Critics Circle Winner - Softcover

Matthews, William

 
9780395825266: Time & Money Pa: New Poems – An Intelligent Verse Collection Exploring the Jazz and Ironies of American Life by the National Book Critics Circle Winner
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ISBN 10: 0395825261 ISBN 13: 9780395825266
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

William Matthews's ten books have gradually earned him a place on the first roster of American poets -" as water licks its steady way through stone." " Very little of the poetry of the past twenty years," Henry Taylor has written in the Washington Times, " is more intelligent and engaging than that of William Matthews . .. Admiring gratitude seems perfectly appropriate." The New Yorker has described Matthews's work as " poems that revel in etymology and delight in colloquialism." And Carol Muske, in The Nation, has added: " If asked, I couldn't come up with a poet more in tune with the ironies and stand-up vernacular, the jazz of the everyday, than William Matthews . . . Matthews is a wise and fine poet and a funny person. Like time and money, an unbeatable combination. " This is a large-hearted book, a strong and worldly book, the work of five years by one of the most admired and generous of American poets. The National Book Critics Circle named it the winner of its 1995 award in poet

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William Matthews won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1995 and the Ruth Lilly Award of the Modern Poetry Association in 1997. Born in Cincinnati in 1942, he was educated at Yale University and the University of North Carolina. At the time of his death in 1997, he was a professor of English and director of the writing program at the City University of New York.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0395825261
ISBN 13 
9780395825266
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
80
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