The Thousand Wells: Poems: Poems / Adam Kirsch. (New Criterion Series) - Hardcover

Kirsch, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566634512 ISBN 13: 9781566634519

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2002

Synopsis

In 2001, Ivan R. Dee began publication of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize-winner with the appearance of Donald Petersen's Early and Late. The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form. The magazine was thus an early leader in that poetic renaissance that has come to be called the New Formalism. For 2002 The New Criterion Poetry Prize was awarded to Adam Kirsch. His first book of poems, The Thousand Wells, is now published. Combining a passionate lyricism with commanding technical skill, Mr. Kirsch offers a beguiling and memorable sequence of poems that are deeply alive to the enchantments of nature and the chastenings of history. This is a remarkable debut by a notable young poet.

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Review

The most exciting, the most serious, and the most courageous young poet-critic in America.--James Wood

Kirsch has already written poems that will endure, and he bids fair to join the ranks of his masters.--Daniel Mark Epstein

One of the most promising young poets-critics in America.... At 26, Kirsch already has a voice distinctly his own...wonderful.--Los Angeles Times

For poetry lovers everywhere.--The Review of Higher Education

About the Author

Adam Kirsch was born and grew up in Los Angeles, and now works as an editor in New York City. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Partisan Review, Harvard Review, the Formalist, and elsewhere. A former assistant literary editor of the New Republic, he writes regularly about poetry for that journal and for the New York Times and other magazines and newspapers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1566634512
• ISBN 13: 9781566634519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80