Ripe

In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the "befuddlement" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.

About the author

Roy Jacobstein is a physician and former official of the United States Agency for International Development. He has received the Randall Jarrell Prize for his chapbook Blue Numbers, Red Life and has been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Summary

In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the "befuddlement" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.

Product details

• Authors: Roy Jacobstein
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1993
• EAN: 9780299182540
• ISBN: 978-0-299-18254-0
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (; Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (; Wisconsin Poetry; Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama