A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye - Poems

A Deeply Felt, Lyric Adventure across the Globe

About the author

V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of Nostos, which won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, which was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is also the coauthor of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. Her recognitions include a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a "Discovery"/The Nation Award. A diplomat's spouse, she has spent the past two decades living and working part-time in Syria, Namibia, South Africa, Italy, and the United States.

Summary

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject.

Product details

• Authors: V Penelope Pelizzon, V. Penelope Pelizzon
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780822967217
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6721-7
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies