| Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Balaban, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556591233 ISBN-13: 9781556591235 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 Annotation: While serving as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war, John Balaban cared for war-wounded children. The poems which he which he wrote out of that experience are among the finest in American literature and are included here along with three decades of other highly-praised, award-winning poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2003279557 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.83" W x 8.82" (0.55 lbs) 150 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: National Book Award finalist by one of the most highly praised writers coming out the the Vietnam War experience. National Book Award finalist and winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Poetry Society of America. John Balaban's work is compelling for its personal candor, dramatizing the deep sympathy between the poet and those who have experienced the horros of war with him. His emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human--by turns compassionate, angry, somber, and humorous, while remaining earnest and ironic. Locusts at the Edge of Summer interweaves two dozen new poems and several Vietnamese translations with work from four previous volumes. "Locusts at the Edge of Summer is a late-century American odyssey."--Poetry "His voice is strong; his poems are important."--Harvard Review |