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Informationen zum Autor Elton Glaser , a native of New Orleans, is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Akron. He is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry at the University of Akron Press, where he was the director for a number of years. Some of his previous poetry collections include Pelican Tracks , Winter Amnesties , and Color Photographs of the Ruins . He has received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. In 1996 he was presented the Ohioana Poetry Award in recognition of his many contributions to poetry as a teacher, publisher, and poet. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry . Klappentext The poems in distinguished poet Elton Glaser s sixth collection journey through the seasons, from spring to spring, a pilgrimage down to the South, over the Midwest of snow and roses, and across the Romance countries of Europe. If the poet often finds himself [h]alfway between grief and longing, that may be his natural condition, rooted in this world against the pull of the next, his faith in the purple evidence of plums, the testimony of wild persimmon weathering the stormy preachers and the droughts of middle age. Within that tension, the range of tones is unlimited, sometimes in the same poem, moving from the serious to the sublime, from anguish to awe. Holding everything together is Glaser s unmistakable voice, a warm idiom made pungent by wintry wit: my tongue of odd American, my mongrel sublime. "
