Yellowrocket: Poems - Hardcover

Boss, Todd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393067688 ISBN 13: 9780393067682

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Synopsis

"Todd Boss is going to be a poetry all-star....He can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon."―Sherman Alexie

Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The New Yorker and a series in Poetry. His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.

About this title

About the Author:

Todd Boss is the author of the poetry collections Yellowrocket and Pitch, both honored by the Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Award, and most recently of the poetry collection Tough Luck. He is the founding artistic director of Motionpoems, a film company in Minneapolis.

Review:

Boss’s writing aches with subtle music, insight, and clear-sighted compassion. . . . If you only buy one book of poetry this year, make it Yellowrocket. — Christian Science Monitor

Like Frost, Todd Boss uses the hardships and beauty of farm life to examine the rough fabric of human connection. — Dorianne Laux. author of Facts About the Moon

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393067688
• ISBN 13: 9780393067682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96