Monkey Time

Lyn Hejinian selected this, Nikolayev's first collection, as Winner of the 2001 Verse Prize.

About the author

PHILIP NIKOLAYEV was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1966 and grew up fully bilingual in Russian and English thanks to his father, a linguist. He started out as a Russian poet, but came to the United States in 1990 to attend Harvard University, and has since been writing primarily in English. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Grand Street, Verse, Stand, Jacket, Salt, overland and many others across the English-speaking world. Nikolayev lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the poet Katia Kapovich and their daughter. He is the editor and publisher of Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.

Summary

Lyn Hejinian selected this, Nikolayev's first collection, as Winner of the 2001 Verse Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Nikolayev
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2004
• EAN: 9780970367297
• ISBN: 978-0-9703672-9-7
• No. of pages: 99
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 150 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 162 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies