| The Niagara River: Poems Contributor(s): Ryan, Kay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802142222 ISBN-13: 9780802142221 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: Bafflingly effective, this new collection of poetry from the winner of the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize seems too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Intense and relaxed, buoyant and rueful, the singular music of Kay Ryan's poetry appeals to a wide audience. Her poems, products of an immaculately off-kilter mind, have appeared everywhere from the Sunday funnies to New York subways to the pages of "The New Yorker" to plaques at the zoo. "The Niagara River," her third collection for the "Grove Press Poetry Series" that began with the publication of "Elephant Rocks," promises to offer similar gems of hidden wonder. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2005040423 |
| Series: Grove Press Poetry Series |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.52" W x 8.32" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the citation accompanying Kay's recent award of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize, Christine Wiman wrote: Kay Ryan can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems-which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling-could never be mistaken for anyone else's. Her work has the kind of singularity and sustained integrity that are very, very rare.... It's always a dicey business predicting the literary future...[but] for this reader, these poems feel as if there were built to last, and...they have the passion, precision and sheer weirdness to do so. Salon compared the poems in Ryan's last collection to Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder. The exquisite poems in The Niagara River provide similarly hidden gems. Bafflingly effective, they seem too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Intense and relaxed at once, both buoyant and rueful, their singular music appeals to many people. Her poems, products of an immaculately off-kilter mind, have been featured everywhere from the Sunday funnies to New York subways to plaques at the zoo to the pages of The New Yorker. |