Graywolf Press Jun 2010 (2 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The powerful and influential last poems of an unsung master, now again available, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark DotyJames L. White's The Salt Ecstasies--originally published in 1982, shortly after White's untimely death--has earned a reputation for its artful and explicit expression of love and desire. In this new edition, with an introduction by Mark Doty and previously unpublished works by White, his invaluable poetry is again available--clear, passionate, and hard-earned. The Salt Ecstasies is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - I Just Lately Started Buying Wings is a finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman's essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic 'missives' cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs, failed and otherwise, to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to an ocean-crossing search for her Eastern European roots. In confident, lyrical prose, Kupperman leads the reader through a winding gallery--a collection of still lifes and portraits, landscapes of loneliness and love.…