Fifth Season (Inland Seas) - Softcover

Butts, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932826539 ISBN 13: 9780932826534

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose, 1997

Synopsis

This book represents a mental construct of salvation. It portrays the individual way in which a person saves the psyche. Fifth Season is an amalgamation of losses transformed into a state of serenity for the individual. The fifth season is that imaginary place where time becomes less relevant, where the poet attempts to make sense of the tangible world around him. The fifth season represents a unique path, one which may not be traveled twice. It is the imaginary construct of a season of hope.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Fifth Season is much more than an account of survival, although the poet has thus far survived childhood blindness, scoliosis, and the contending psychic nightmares of the urban poor. Fifth Season illuminates the triumph of the author's will and spirit over unspeakable horrors, and his ability to claim a self in the book's powerful final poem, 'Skin.'

Fifth Season is a winner of a 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award, it is also a recipient of the Small Press Editor's Choice Award for 1998.

About the Author:

ANTHONY BUTTS is author of Fifth Season, Evolution, and Little Low Heaven, which was awarded the 2004 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work appears on Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work; in Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; and in American Poetry: The Next Generation. A Detroit native, he is a graduate of Wayne State University and the University of Missouri-Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0932826539
• ISBN 13: 9780932826534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 52