Late Empire (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Wojahn, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082295530X ISBN 13: 9780822955306

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994

Synopsis

Late Empire, David Wojahn’s most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation.  In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac.  Centered around tow masterful elegies for the writers parents, the poems also treat an array of subjects familiar to us from news events but rarely examined by contemporary poetry.

About 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 of Spirit Cabinet, The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, Icehouse Lights, Interrogation Palace, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World 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 edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 082295530X
• ISBN 13: 9780822955306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88