1999, ISBN: 9780618155460

Many of the poems in Glyn Maxwell's brilliant new collection explore American life and history. An Englishman who lived five years in Massachusetts, Maxwell watches fairs and floods and b… Mehr…

Many of the poems in Glyn Maxwell's brilliant new collection explore American life and history. An Englishman who lived five years in Massachusetts, Maxwell watches fairs and floods and beggars pass by; he tries to understand gridiron and the ever-lengthening Halloween season. Some of these poems concern the harmful and the harmed: school shooters and terrorists on the one hand, victims and refugees on the other -- a girl accused of witchcraft; families made homeless, knowing "none in heaven or earth with any stake/in stopping it"; and the Californian "wild child" Genie. In a zone between are the harmlessly bewildered: a man who holds his own funeral, a TV weatherman wishing for hurricanes, women writing love letters to men on Death Row. Maxwell's first new collection since The Breakage (1999), this succession of lyrics and narratives captures the strangeness and splendor of America, its thin layer of normality, its historical origins in flight, longing, and trust in providence. Beyond the cultural context of these poems is an incisive and compassionate portrait of the human animal in the twenty-first century. The Nerve is a haunting, powerful book that strikes deep beneath the surface of daily life, "like a spell or a code that unlocks a safe" (P. N. Review). Media > Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin]<

1999, ISBN: 9780618155460

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 81 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed pu… Mehr…

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 81 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed publisher material including author publicity photo laid in. The pub sheets print blurbs by Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky among others. A British poet he has studied and taught in the US; Maxwell is the poetry editor of the New Republic. One of the best reviewed poet's of his generation, of his latest book, possibly our finest critic James Wood had this to say: "...It is clearly the work of the major poet of his generation, boldly expanding the canvas and means of his art.' Fine in wraps., Houghton Mifflin, 1999<

2002, ISBN: 9780618155460

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 58 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed pu… Mehr…

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 58 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed publisher pub sheet laid in. A British poet he has studied and taught in the US; Maxwell is the poetry editor of the New Republic. One of the best reviewed poet's of his generation, of his latest book, possibly our finest critic James Wood had this to say: "...It is clearly the work of the major poet of his generation, boldly expanding the canvas and means of his art.' One page of the proof is a page of blurbs from nobelists Brodsky and Walcott to Nick Hornby and the NYT. Fine in wraps., Houghton Mifflin, 2002<

ISBN: 9780618155460

Houghton Mifflin. Used - Very Good. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job train program for youth, empowering youth to … Mehr…

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ISBN: 9780618155460

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