The World's Room

"The World's Room" is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.

About the author

Joshua Weiner was a 2000 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. He teaches at Northwestern University and serves on the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Summary

From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, this collection intertwines the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slang, and the sacred and the profane.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Weiner
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2001
• EAN: 9780226885766
• ISBN: 978-0-226-88576-6
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 142 g
• Series: Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry