The Blues of Heaven - Poems

Poems that range from personal grief, political calamity, to deft humor, in a voice full of compassion both intimate and expansive

About the author

Barbara Ras is the author of the poetry collections Bite Every Sorrow (winner of the Walt Whitman Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award), One Hidden Stuff, and The Last Skin. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and Orion, as well as in other magazines and anthologies. Ras has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at workshops nationally and internationally. She lives in San Antonio and is the founding director emerita of Trinity University Press.

Summary

An expansive, ardent, and memorable book of personal poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ras
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780822966548
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6654-8
• No. of pages: 70
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 225 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 124 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies