Funny

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian who has published several scholarly volumes and one previous collection of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext A tour de force, "Funny "is a stunning masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell, and tells marvelous stories. Zusammenfassung Selected by Billy Collins! this work is a collection of poems! with philosophic and comic! invention. It is the winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. It creates a musing world where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people. The poems in it are psychological; tender and humane! and they also tell stories.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2006
• EAN: 9780299214043
• ISBN: 978-0-299-21404-3
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (; Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (; Wisconsin Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama