Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness: A Poet’s Notebooks (Carnegie Mellon Poets in Prose) - Softcover

Di Piero, W. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088748624X ISBN 13: 9780887486241

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness contains selections taken from Simone Di Piero’s notebooks going back thirty years. His notebooks offer evidence of a poet’s inner life and have been for him a kind of mute conversation partner. They testify in an episodic way to one poet’s encounters with the world. Di Piero’s materials include life’s personal day-to-day debris, as well as reflections on the art of poetry, painting, photography, music, the American character, and urban life. Mickey Rourke is a still-in-progress excavation of the contents of consciousness. “W. S. Di Piero is probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American poets.” ―Poetry

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About the Author

W.S. Di Piero is a poet, essayist, art critic, and translator. He has taught at Northwestern University, Louisiana State University, and Stanford University, where he is professor emeritus of English and on faculty in the Stegner Poetry Workshop. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2012. Di Piero is the author of numerous collections of poetry and of essays on literary and visual art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088748624X
• ISBN 13: 9780887486241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88