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This poetry collection delivers an exploration of the vagaries, ironies and responsibilities of familial and romantic relationships. It probes the evolution of self, self-consciousness, and the interior psychological landscape - the effects of our past patterns and influences on the present.
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"These poems are alive with people getting by, loving, failing, making the gestures which define them. In this confident, large-hearted and enormously readable book, Cox demonstrates what might seem to be impossible: how a voice can be at once tender and toughminded,
About the Author:
passionate and casually down-to-earth, disillusioned and thoroughly glad to be alive. Here's a surprising, unmistakable poet offering some of the most generous and compassionate of contemporary lyrics." - Mark Doty
"Mark Cox has a wry, deadpan humor, a piercing wit, and a keen knowledge of the contradictions of the human heart, His words sift deep into life, into unconscious motivations, into the elusive countries of sadness and happiness. These poems transcend their own ironies the intense self-consciousness of an ironizing speaker to sing with a moving simplicity, with an open and vulnerable voice. Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone confirms Mark Cox's promise and further fulfills his talent." - Edward Hirsch
"Ever since Smoulder I have been looking forward to a new book by Mark Cox. Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone is a splendid book, a book so rich and human and original it will help you remember why you love poetry. Mark Cox has written his way into being one of the finest
Poets of his generation." - Thomas Lux
"Mark Cox writes with daring, humor, skill, and a gnarled, empathetic heart from which he has drawn these clear, shapely poems." - William Matthews
Mark Cox directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.
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- PublisherUniv of Pittsburgh Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0822940655
- ISBN 13 9780822940654
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages105
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