A Map of the Night (Illinois Poetry Series) - Softcover

Wagoner, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252075676 ISBN 13: 9780252075674

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

David Wagoner’s wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new collection, Wagoner catches the mixed feelings of a long drive, the sensations of walking against a current, the difficulty of writing poetry with noisily amorous neighbors, and many more uniquely familiar experiences.

About this title

About the Author:

David Wagoner is the author of eighteen collections of poems, including The House of Song, Good Morning and Good Night, and Traveling Light, as well as ten novels. He has received numerous honors and awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Review:

"Wagoner's juxtaposition of natural objects and processes with the human impulse to impose meaning shows both his command of natural imagery and his deep understanding of the rhythms of recurrence and resurgence in human life as it is lived out as part of the physical world."--Pleiades

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252075676
• ISBN 13: 9780252075674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168