Mercury Dressing: Poems

McClatchy, J D

ISBN 10: 0375711783 / ISBN 13: 9780375711787

Published by Knopf Publishing Group, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mercury Dressing: Poems
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375711783
• ISBN 13: 9780375711787
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This beautiful collection from J. D. McClatchy holds up a mirror to the soul, considering heroic and human figures in poems that "balance mandarin wit with enormous learning, a fully twenty-first-century sensibility and a deft use of the demotic" (Bookpage).

About the Author

J. D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poems, three collections of prose, and thirteen opera libretti. A teacher at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy is also the president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.