The Black Beach - Poems

In this 2004 winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry the poems describe everyday acts, like putting children to bed, coaching Little League, sending a daughter to school, but brood over what may be behind the everyday, and how to reach it.

About the author

J. T. Barbarese has been widely published in journals and magazines as varied as The Georgia Review and The New York Times. He is the author of two books of poems in the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poets Series, and the translator of Euripides's Children of Herakles for the University of Pennsylvania Press. His degrees are from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Temple University. He teaches at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Philadelphia.

Summary

The poems of "The Black Beach" describe everyday acts like putting children to bed, coaching Little League, and sending a daughter to school, but brood over what may be behind the everyday and how to reach it and talk to it.

Product details

• Authors: J. T. Barbarese, J.T. Barbarese
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2005
• EAN: 9781574411881
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-188-1
• No. of pages: 53
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry; Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama