ISBN: 9780299144142 - now we're getting somewhere (the felix pollak prize in poetry) (9 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. University of Wisconsin, 1994. First edition trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Winner of Felix Pollak Prize in poetry. New, in illustrated wraps. Sotbound. Poems that incorporate the cockeyed wisdom of 1950s sci fi films, vegetarian physics, flying saucer disciples, and the theory of spontaneous human combustion, transforming raw data into song. Paperbound 85 pages. F3200.…

Zustand: New. The first winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, this collection reminds readers that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. The author's compassionate witness is born out of immersion in bittersweet particulars. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168. . 1994. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. In English.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 85 pages. 8.00x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Clewell's graceful, honest lines accumulate and remind us that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. His compassionate witness is born out of immersion in doggedly bittersweet particulars: the cockeyed wisdom of 1950s science fiction movies; Do Not Disturb signs; vegetarian physics; the perils of bed-and-breakfast lodging; flying saucer disciples; what to do in case of Rapture; Debbie Fuller, reluctant childhood angel; the theory and practice of Spontaneous Human Combustion. His passionate transformation of that raw data into song-no matter how fragile or raucous-provides irrefutable testimony about the consequences of being nothing less than human, where 'every day someone crawls out of his ocean of sleep / and takes those first tottering steps on the planet again, / he's playing with real fire.' And with Clewell's insistence on the unlikely grace in that condition, along with the generosity of his unabashed inclusiveness, his poetry is a powerful antidote to the bad medicine we're too often asked to swallow. This is a book of sustenance, of fresh assurances that come to us-ready or not-out of the blue of this spirited poet's most engaging work yet.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid Clewell is the author of six poetry collections, including Blessings in Disguise, a winner in the National Poetry Series. Clewell teaches writing and literature at Webster University in St. Louis. He has been n.