Collected Poems - Hardcover

Theroux, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606998021 ISBN 13: 9781606998021

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

The publication of Alexander Theroux’s Collected Poems, a gathering of more than 660 poems, an astonishing creative output, will be among the major literary events of the year. Here is a full cornucopia of sonnets, odes, ballads, free verse, triolets, pure, satires, narratives, dramatic monologues, fanciful meditations, flytings and harangues, ruminations on death and lost love, and no end of lyrics both beautiful and fierce. Taken altogether they contrive to make up a record of the author’s deepest thoughts and reflect the dramatis personae of his life. Theroux captures in his work those rare, frail, but precious truths, inaccessible to the common run of men that would otherwise have vanished into nescience. Sardonic, astute, impertinent, tender, clever, warmhearted, delphic, truculent, comic, defiantly aggressive, and often achingly personal, he shows an intensity of observation and invention.

About this title

About the Author

Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. His novel Darconville's Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children.

From the Back Cover

The publication of Alexander Theroux's Collected Poems will be among the major literary events of the year. Taken altogether they contrive to make up a record of the author's deepest thoughts and reflct the dramatis personae of his life. Theroux captures in his work those rare, frail, but precious truths, inaccessible to the common run of men that would otherwise have vanished into nescience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606998021
• ISBN 13: 9781606998021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672