Late Empire (Pitt Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Wojahn, David

4.04

27 ratings by Goodreads

9780822937937: Late Empire (Pitt Poetry Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082293793X ISBN 13: 9780822937937

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1994

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects drawn from news events.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover:

'Wojahn delights in generating poems from the flotsam of contemporary culture. This new offering reaches beyond his earlier work and enters more harrowing arenas of experience, exploring the collective and individual human condition via a catalogue of miseries, mishaps and bottled-up memories...' -- 'Publishers Weekly'

About the Author:

David Wojahn is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author ofSpirit Cabinet, The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, Icehouse Lights, Interrogation Palace, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, andWorld Tree, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. Wojahn is the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes, the William Carlos Williams Book Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the George Kent Memorial Prize, and the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, among other honors. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.