The The Optimist: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize) - Hardcover

Mehigan, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821416111 ISBN 13: 9780821416112

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2005

Synopsis

In Joshua Mehigan's award-winning poetry, one encounters a lucid, resolute vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line.

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Review

""The Optimist", by Joshua Mehigan, is remarkable for its mastery of form and of tone. Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in the way he plays speech rhythms against the patters of verse, creating a tense, deceptively simple music...."--Adam Kirsch, "The New York Sun"

"This is a poet with absolutely no reliance on madness or on romantic mismatch between himself and the world, and he should, at the very least, be able to keep doing what he's doing as impressively as he has been doing it, which is awfully impressively."--"Poetry"

"Mehigan is already the sort of poet who gives you lines you want to write down and remember.... There's nothing old-fashioned about rhyme and meter when they're used with mastery. Reader, Joshua Mehigan's poetry is a passionate pursuit of the real."--"The Hudson Review"

"Joshua Mehigan's "The Optimist", though a first book, is already the work of a master coming into his unique own. Mehigan writes with a deep and alarming calmness that derives directly from his mastery, and his poems shine with luminous strangeness. "The Optimist" possesses the mysterious vision and power of great art."--Andrew Hudgins

""The Optimist," by Joshua Mehigan, is remarkable for its mastery of form and of tone. Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in the way he plays speech rhythms against the patters of verse, creating a tense, deceptively simple music...."--Adam Kirsch, "The New York Sun"

"Joshua Mehigan's "The Optimist," though a first book, is already the work of a master coming into his unique own. Mehigan writes with a deep and alarming calmness that derives directly from his mastery, and his poems shine with luminous strangeness. "The Optimist" possesses the mysterious vision and power of great art."--Andrew Hudgins

"The Optimist," by Joshua Mehigan, is remarkable for its mastery of form and of tone. Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in the way he plays speech rhythms against the patters of verse, creating a tense, deceptively simple music. Adam Kirsch, "The New York Sun""

This is a poet with absolutely no reliance on madness or on romantic mismatch between himself and the world, and he should, at the very least, be able to keep doing what he s doing as impressively as he has been doing it, which is awfully impressively. "Poetry""

Mehigan is already the sort of poet who gives you lines you want to write down and remember. There s nothing old-fashioned about rhyme and meter when they re used with mastery. Reader, Joshua Mehigan s poetry is a passionate pursuit of the real. "The Hudson Review""

"Joshua Mehigan s "The Optimist," though a first book, is already the work of a master coming into his unique own. Mehigan writes with a deep and alarming calmness that derives directly from his mastery, and his poems shine with luminous strangeness. "The Optimist" possesses the mysterious vision and power of great art. Andrew Hudgins"

About the Author

Joshua Mehigan was born in upstate New York in 1969. Since 1993 he has lived in New York City and worked as an editor and English teacher. Published in many journals, including the Chattahoochee Review, Dogwood, The Formalist, Pequod, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and Verse, his poems and translations are also forthcoming in anthologies from Word Press and Zoo Press. His poems have won the Dogwood Poetry Contest and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0821416111
• ISBN 13: 9780821416112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 61