Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (Penguin Poets) - Softcover

Wrigley, Robert

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9780143123071: Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (Penguin Poets)
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ISBN 10: 0143123076 ISBN 13: 9780143123071
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2013

Synopsis

A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions—Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating, joyous, miserable, and perfectly imperfect of all creatures—the human being.

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About the Author

Robert Wrigley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; Reign of Snakes, winner of the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Lives of the Animals, winner of the 2004 Poet's Prize; and, most recently, Beautiful Country. He teaches at the University of Idaho and lives with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes, near Moscow, Idaho.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0143123076
ISBN 13 
9780143123071
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
111
Rating
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