Wise poison: Poems - Hardcover

David Rivard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555972519 ISBN 13: 9781555972516

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 1996

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Review:

"I love these intense, brilliantly crafted poems. "Wise Poison" is perfectly pitched and uniquely American, a beautiful, angry, heartbreaking, celebratory, and powerful book."--Thomas Lux

"The poems in David Rivard's compelling and delicious new book do not smother you with grandiosity nor come creeping towards you bowed down in self-effacement. These are poems of a human scale; they are complicated, muscled with irony, and their wonderful voice is startling in its power to move, interest, delight."--Lynn Emanuel

I love these intense, brilliantly crafted poems. "Wise Poison" is perfectly pitched and uniquely American, a beautiful, angry, heartbreaking, celebratory, and powerful book. "Thomas Lux"

The poems in David Rivard's compelling and delicious new book do not smother you with grandiosity nor come creeping towards you bowed down in self-effacement. These are poems of a human scale; they are complicated, muscled with irony, and their wonderful voice is startling in its power to move, interest, delight. "Lynn Emanuel""

"I love these intense, brilliantly crafted poems. Wise Poison is perfectly pitched and uniquely American, a beautiful, angry, heartbreaking, celebratory, and powerful book." --Thomas Lux

"The poems in David Rivard's compelling and delicious new book do not smother you with grandiosity nor come creeping towards you bowed down in self-effacement. These are poems of a human scale; they are complicated, muscled with irony, and their wonderful voice is startling in its power to move, interest, delight." --Lynn Emanuel

From the Back Cover:

"I love these intense, brilliantly crafted poems. Wise Poison is perfectly pitched and uniquely American, a beautiful, angry, heartbreaking, celebratory, and powerful book."--Thomas Lux

In Wise Poison David Rivard gives us a mind hard at work on the most vital questions: Who am I? What do I love? What can be trusted? At issue in these passionate arguments with the self are the "curious forces" that surround us in every part of our lives. In an airport lounge in the Yucatan, in the song of a street musician, or simply in the pulsing of skin along the neck, Rivard finds connections and doubt, and reason for both comfort and rage.

"The poems in David Rivard's compelling and delicious new book do not smother you with grandiosity nor come creeping towards you bowed down in self-effacement. These are poems of a human scale; they are complicated, muscled with irony, and their wonderful voice is startling in its power to move, interest, delight."--Lynn Emanuel

David Rivard's first book, Torque, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series. Wise Poison is the recipient of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. Writing Progarm at Vermont College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1555972519
• ISBN 13: 9781555972516
• Binding: Hardcover