Funny (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Jennifer Michael Hecht (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299214001 ISBN 13: 9780299214005

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Synopsis

Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins, a tour de force, "Funny" is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell and tells marvelous stories.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian who has published several scholarly volumes and one previous collection of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299214001
• ISBN 13: 9780299214005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88