The Destroyer in the Glass (Volume 110) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) - Hardcover

Warren, Noah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300217145 ISBN 13: 9780300217148

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
 
Noah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done—to ourselves and to others—in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form, rhyme, and allusion with a freer, expressive style, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through, by, and in language.
 
Since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has launched the careers of poets as esteemed and varied as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. Judge Carl Phillips praises The Destroyer in the Glass for “its wedding of intellect, heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self.”

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About the Author

Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia and received his BA from Yale University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Yale Review, Missouri Review, and AGNI. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books of poetry and a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300217145
• ISBN 13: 9780300217148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104