Rhinoceros - Softcover

Kevin Ducey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971898162 ISBN 13: 9780971898165

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Kevin Ducey’s Rhinoceros was selected from over 1,000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. With lyrical turns and metaphorical sways, Rhinoceros embodies mythologies that are brought down to earth and riffs on history, desire, death, sex and food. We have lunch with Hawking and Disney before stopping in to see how Robert Browning’s recording session with Thomas Edison is getting on. (They hate each other.) Komunyakaa writes in his introduction: “Rhinoceros has a playfulness that pulses alongside a seriousness, and this rippling effect resonates beneath the skin. . . . A keen imagination drives these impressive poems.”

Kevin Ducey teaches creative writing at the University of Notre Dame and lives in South Bend, Indiana.

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin Ducey, winner of the 2004 Honickman First Book Prize, teaches creative writing at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been published in River City, Malahat, Elixir, and Crab Orchard Review. Rhinoceros is his first book. Yusef Komunyakaa, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, teaches at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0971898162
• ISBN 13: 9780971898165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96