ANY OLD WOLF - Softcover

Silverstein, Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976764229 ISBN 13: 9780976764229

Publisher: Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006

Synopsis

Poetry. Murray Silverstein's first collection of poems revels in the inscrutable world, in the joy of words, and in the essential human task of carving those words to fit that world. Silverstein's lifelong career as an architect subtly imbues poem after poem; the reader has a powerful sense of the author building each poem: its foundation dug and poured, its lines framed, finished, finally lived in: the miracle of raw materials-word and deed-brought to life. Part memoir, part prayer, part light-footed dance, Silverstein's poetry shows metrical control, subtle internal rhyme, and Hopkins's prosodic beats: the diction of the day unfurled. It plays not simply with metaphor but with the idea of metaphor, and pulls the reader in: to discovery, to the sway of language, and to the great and complex machinery of what Silverstein calls "the factories of desire."

About this title

About the Author

Murray Silverstein's first collection, ANY OLD WOLF (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006), received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. He served as executive editor of the anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). He is the author, most recently, of MASTER OF LEAVES (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2014), and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, Nimrod, Poetry East, Zyzzyva and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.

Review

". . . fresh, brisk and witty, alert to the cadences of spoken English and the surprising turns of the mind." -- Chana Bloch, author of *Mrs. Dumpty*. Dumpty

". . . poems built from the intimacies of love . . . and a warm and witty engagement with the language of a full life." -- Forrest Hamer, author of *Middle Ear*

"This is a decidedly human, decidedly felt collection of poems—generous and restorative at once." -- Carl Phillips, author of *The Tether*

Edition details

• Publisher: Sixteen Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0976764229
• ISBN 13: 9780976764229
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96