Oubliette

Poetry. In the introduction to OUBLIETTE, Peter Richards's first book of poetry, Tomaz Salamun writes, It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art. I don't know and I don't want to tell you about it. Get wet by yourself. Dara Wier says about OUBLIETTE, I love to read a book approaching tragedy without recourse to literal analogy. Peter Richards' poems hesitate to simplify and they get close to knowing, thus they nearly push me over the edge, then they say, don't go, not yet. They electrify the mortal story that goes - there's only one way in, one way out of this world. And then these tender poems say, let's go everywhere, maybe there's another world.

About the author

PETER RICHARDS was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1967. His honors include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, the John Logan Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry. He teaches at Tufts University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. His first book, Oubliette (Verse Press, 2001), won a Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Richards, RICHARDS PETER
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2004
• EAN: 9780970367228
• ISBN: 978-0-9703672-2-8
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 141 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 130 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies