Night Music: Poems - Softcover

Sissman, L.E.; Davison, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395925703 ISBN 13: 9780395925706

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American original.

About this title

About the Author:

EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.

Synopsis:

A collection of works from the revolutionary poet who died at the age of forty-eight from Hodgkin's disease encompasses his lifework and reveals the spirit and soul of this great American poet. Original.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395925703
• ISBN 13: 9780395925706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140