Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems (Breakthrough Book) - Hardcover

Dillard, Annie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826201563 ISBN 13: 9780826201560

Publisher: University of Missouri Press, 1974

Synopsis

Poems consider religion, the holidays, love, nature, the past, office life, the seasons, prayer, and the soul

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She loves the country below. Like Emerson, she sees the virulence in nature as well as the beauty that entrances her. Annie Dillard is a poet. Washington Post Book World"

She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace. The New Yorker"

She is a fine wayfarer, one who travels light, reflective and alert to the shrines and holy places. New York Times Book Review"

She sees the world with a penetrating eye and presents it to us in a refreshing new dimension . Masterful. Smithsonian"

-She loves the country below. Like Emerson, she sees the virulence in nature as well as the beauty that entrances her. Annie Dillard is a poet.---Washington Post Book World

-She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace.---The New Yorker

-She is a fine wayfarer, one who travels light, reflective and alert to the shrines and holy places.- --New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

ANNIE DILLARD is a narrative nonfiction writer, poet, novelist and critic. She has published over ten works, including An American Childhood (1987), Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982), The Living (1992), For the Time Being (2000) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976). Michael Collier is Poet Laureate of Maryland, Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and Director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0826201563
• ISBN 13: 9780826201560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128