The Optimist

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Mehigan lives in New York City and works as an editor and English teacher. Klappentext The Optimist was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In Joshua Mehigan's award-winning poetry! one encounters a vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist use traditional poetic technique. Whether narrative or lyric! dramatic or satirical! Mehigan's poems explore death! desire! and change with a mixture of reason and compassion. Zusammenfassung Stares at contemporary darkness visible, a darkly lit tableau that erases the boundary between the world and the perceiving self. Whether narrative or lyric, dramatic or satirical, this book includes poems that explore death, desire, and change with a mixture of reason and compassion.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Mehigan
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780821416129
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1612-9
• No. of pages: 61
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry