The Horses - New & Selected Poems

Richard Silberg's The Horses lives in keen, tasty language, with images like searchlights, and stories, monologues, and meditations that leap to epiphany.

About the author

Richard Silberg is a poet, critic, translator, and Associate Editor of Poetry Flash. His poetry book, Deconstruction of the Blues, received the 2006 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award and was nominated for the Northern California Book Award. He is the author of Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry, as well as essaysand several translations, among them The Three Way Tavern, by South Korean poet Ko Un, which won the 2007 Northern California Book Award. This Side of Time, poems by Ko Un co-translated by Clare You and Richard Silberg, is forthcoming from White Pine Press. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, Eleven Eleven, and New American Writing, among many other journals. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Summary

Richard Silberg's The Horses lives in keen, tasty language, with images like searchlights, and stories, monologues, and meditations that leap to epiphany.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Silberg
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781597092319
• ISBN: 978-1-59709-231-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies