Elk in Winter

Informationen zum Autor Robert Pack is Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College! where he taught for thirty-four years and directed the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Currently he lives in Missoula and teaches at the Honors College of the University of Montana. He is the author of eighteen books of poems! most recently Fathering the Map! Minding the Sun! and Rounding It Out! all published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Robert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature! Pack's newest collection! "Elk in Winter!" resolves universal questions in the particular! the personal! and the intimate. This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy! from lyric to narrative! in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. What finally unites the poems of "Elk in Winter" is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart! and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas. Zusammenfassung Robert Pack searches for meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe. He locates beauty! consolation! and even happiness in those commitments that we will into fulfillment in awareness of loss.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Pack, Pack Robert
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.04.2004
• EAN: 9780226644141
• ISBN: 978-0-226-64414-1
• Pagine: 136
• Serie: Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets Series PP
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione