About this title: The winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Gluck. It is Gluck's first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and astonishing power. Taking his inspiration from both American and Chinese culture, Streckfus seems an impossible combination of John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. In her Foreword, Gluck praises Streckfus's art for its "nonsense and mystery," its "mesmerising beauty" and "luminous high ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 3-11-04
ISBN-13:9780300102710ISBN:0300102712
Description: GOOD. Crisp and clean hardcover lacking dustjacket with bump towards the top of the spine and shelfwear to boards-Nice. 0.55 lbs. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004-03-11
ISBN-13:9780300102727ISBN:0300102720
Description: Very Good. 2004 Yale University Press Series of Younger Poets Trade Paperback; Edition Not Stated; text clean/UNMARKED; appears UNREAD; color cover near mint/edges fine w/corner wear; spine perfect; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; 80 pages; forward by Louise Gluck; 5 parts/25 poems; notes; color cover illustration is "Perilous Order" by Shahzia Sikander (1997); "mercurial poems--epic in distance+drama, lyric in intimacy+intensity--shape-shift between humor+compassion, wonder+wisdom...the ... read more
Description: Streckfus, Peter. THE CUCKOO. Foreword by Louise Gluck. New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., (2004). 60p, paper wraps, fine. Advance uncorrected page proof. 'Yale Series of Younger Poets, " vol. 98. read more
Description: Good. 0300102720 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: Good. 0300102712 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. 0300102720 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004-03-11
ISBN-13:9780300102727ISBN:0300102720
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