PURSUIT OF A WOUND by Sydney Lea ( 9780252068171 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PURSUIT OF A WOUND
POEMS

By:

Sydney Lea

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Paperback

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0252068173

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9780252068171

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Pub. date:

20 April, 2000

Series:

Illinois Poetry Series

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Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for "To the Bone", Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. This work of his is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky.

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"Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for his collection "To the Bone", Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, "Pursuit of a Wound", is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky and the dispossessed. Delving in equal measure into the flinty northern New England landscape and the exiled souls of ordinary people, "Pursuit of a Wound" moves beyond Lea's previous work to explore new poetic strategies, including some that approach prose poetry. Combining a free-ranging sensibility akin to Whitman's with a keen attention to verse's formal possibilities, this collection of twenty-eight new poems evokes a beautiful and threatened place and ratifies Lea's status as heir-apparent to Robert Frost."

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University of Illinois Press

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