Deception Island Selected Early Poems, 1974-1999

William Logan's poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the work of most of his contemporaries, and perhaps do not want to fit at all. "Deception Island", a selection from his first five books, is an introduction to the work of a poet who has taken a resistant pleasure in the Byzantine contrivance of Venice, in the empty vision of the American west, and in the romantic longing of British landscape.

About the author

William Logan has published eight books of poetry and five books of essays and reviews. Among his many awards are the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, the Allen Tate Prize, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, the inaugural Randall Jarrell Prize for Poetry Criticism, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. He teaches at the University of Florida and has been called the “most hated man in American poetry” as well as the “pre-eminent poet-critic of his generation,” and the “best poetry critic in America.”

Product details

• Authors: William Logan
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.03.2011
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781844717170
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-717-0
• Pages: 148
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 196 g
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: POETRY / American / General; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry / poems by individual poets; Literature of the United States of America (USA)