My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge - Hardcover

Guest, Paul

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9780061685163: My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006168516X ISBN 13: 9780061685163

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2008

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A new collection by the Whiting Award-winning author of Notes for My Body Double offers new perspectives on his experiences as a physically challenged writer and the range of emotions he endured after a childhood accident that left him paralyzed.

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"Astonishing." -- Jorie Graham

Astonishing. --Jorie Graham

"Guest takes the reader on a path like few contemporary poets offer."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Astonishing."--Jorie Graham

Guest takes the reader on a path like few contemporary poets offer. --Chicago Sun-Times"

A beautiful, breathless torrent of language that is dark or insightful or funny or any combination thereof, but always on the mark, always riveting. . . . "My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge" is a terrific book. --Mark Strand"

Astonishing. --Jorie Graham"

"A beautiful, breathless torrent of language that is dark or insightful or funny or any combination thereof, but always on the mark, always riveting. . . . My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is a terrific book. "--Mark Strand

About the Author:

Paul Guest is the author of three poetry collections, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, which won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry; Notes for My Body Double, which won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize; and My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. The recipient of a 2007 Whiting Award, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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