Crossing Borders – Selected Shorter Poems: 0796 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Scott, Peter Dale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121284X ISBN 13: 9780811212847

Publisher: New Directions, 1997

Synopsis

Crossing Borders presents the shorter work of acclaimed poet Peter Dale Scott. Scott--who can "achieve the quiet authority of the best later Williams" (London Times Literary Supplement) and who is renowned for his two epic, book-length poems Coming to Jakarta and Listening to the Candle--appears here on an inviting new scale. Whether considering nature, death, love, memory, or the classical Chinese masters, each of the fifty-six poems of Crossing Borders yields large pleasures within a small compass. This selected volume presents new dimensions of a poet "capable of true invention," as Thom Gunn has remarked, "[and] of interest to all who read poetry"

About this title

About the Author

Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet and author who has published more than a dozen books and collections of poetry, many revolving around the self-coined concept of "deep politics."

From the Back Cover

Crossing Borders present the shorter work of acclaimed poet Peter Dale Scott.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 081121284X
• ISBN 13: 9780811212847
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 137