| Collected Poems Contributor(s): Hull, Lynda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555974570 ISBN-13: 9781555974572 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2006 Annotation: The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty) "If each of us contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . . "-- from " The Window" Lynda Hull's "Collected Poems "brings together her three collections-- long unavailable-- with a new introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, and allows, for the first time, the full scale of her achievement to be seen. Edited with Hull's husband, David Wojahn, this book contains all the poems Hull published in her lifetime, before her untimely death in 1994. "Collected Poems "is the first book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, which brings essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print. Each volume-- chosen by series editor Mark Doty-- is introduced by a poet who brings to the work a passionate admiration. The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series brings all-but-lost masterworks of recent American poetry into the hands of a new generation of readers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2006924338 |
| Series: Re/View |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.32" W x 8.98" (0.85 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty) Lynda Hull's Collected Poems brings together her three collections-long unavailable-with a new introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, and allows, for the first time, the full scale of her achievement to be seen. Edited with Hull's husband, David Wojahn, this book contains all the poems Hull published in her lifetime, before her untimely death in 1994. Collected Poems is the first book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, which brings essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print. Each volume-chosen by series editor Mark Doty-is introduced by a poet who brings to the work a passionate admiration. The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series brings all-but-lost masterworks of recent American poetry into the hands of a new generation of readers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Komunyakaa, Yusef: - Yusef Komunyakaa's books of poems include Warhorses (FSG, 2008), Taboo (FSG, 2004), and Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at New York University.
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