Study for Necessity

"Study for Necessity is the 2014 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Judge Emily Wilson: Kwiatek's poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists' worlds they refer to: those of Casper David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Odilon Redon. Each is a "token of strangeness" built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying, what the poet calls the mind's "lonesome flourish""--

About the author

JoEllen Kwiatek's first book, Eleven Days Before Spring, was published by HarperCollins (1994). Among her awards and grants is a Pushcart Prize. She lives in West Valley, New York.

Summary

“Kwiatek’s poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists’ worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Redon. Each is a ‘token of strangeness’ built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying what the poet calls the mind’s ‘lonesome flourish’.” - Emily Wilson, judge, 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize

Product details

• Authors: Joellen Kwiatek
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9781609383244
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-324-4
• Series: Iowa Poetry Prize; 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize; Iowa Poetry Prize; 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama