Neck of the World: Poems

Rzicznek, F. Daniel; Alice Quinn [Forward]

ISBN 10: 0874216680 / ISBN 13: 9780874216684

Published by Utah State University Press, Logan, 2007

About this Item

First printing of the first edition. Signed by F. Daniel Rzicznek directly on the title-page. Author's first book-length collection of poems. Recipient of the May Swenson Poetry Award. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

Seller Inventory # 005096

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Neck of the World: Poems
• Publisher: Utah State University Press, Logan
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874216680
• ISBN 13: 9780874216684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Amanda McGuire (Author photo); Barbara Yale Read (Cover design); TC
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold."

About the Author

F. Daniel Rzicznek earned his BA from Kent State University and MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University. His chapbook of prose poems, Cloud Tablets, part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, appeared from Kent State University Press in 2006. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, and numerous other literary journals. Currently, he teaches English composition at Bowling Green State University and lives with his wife in Bowling Green, Ohio. Neck of the World is his first book-length collection of poems.