A Home for Wayward Girls (New Issues Poetry & Prose) - Softcover

Boyle, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930974493 ISBN 13: 9781930974494

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2005

Synopsis

Poetry. Winner of the 2004 New Issues Poetry Prize. Judge: Rodney Jones. "Kevin Boyle's poems are edgy and sometimes gritty as they cut to the bone of human experience--love, fatherhood, and work. These stunning poems offer the sweep of history as well as the inward gaze. Like many of our favorite Irish and Irish-American poets, Boyle is a great storyteller, and narratives and incidents he records in the poems are unforgettable. The beautiful surfaces of his work often serve to make the water appear safe for the reader--all the while peril reigns below"--Stuart Dischell.

About this title

About the Author:

KEVIN BOYLE was born and grew up in Philadelphia, receiving his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He attended graduate school at Boston University and the University of Iowa. Kevin Boyle's poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. His chapbook, The Lullaby of History, won the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Prize and was published in 2002. Boyle teaches at Elon University in North Carolina where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Review:

“Kevin Boyle's poems are ambitious in form, theme, and style, but never merely egotistical. When they are not singing with a full-throated, operatic grace, they are telling memorable stories. But more than that, they answer Milosz's primary challenge for the poetry of our era: they come off as the poetry of only one person. And they do it passionately. A Home for Wayward Girls is a book for grown-ups: charmed, elegant, learned, and wise. It does not read like a project or even faintly resemble a first book. It seems the natural outgrowth of a sensitive and intelligent life.” (Rodney Jones)

About this edition

• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1930974493
• ISBN 13: 9781930974494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 93