Selected Poems (Library and Information Science (Paperback)) - Softcover

Anania, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155921113X ISBN 13: 9781559211130

Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1995

Synopsis

A vivid collection of poetry.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Anania has won a number of awards for his writing, including the Friends of Literature Poetry Prize, a Best American Short Stories Award, Pushcart Prize in Poetry and Criticism, and arts council literary awards and fellowships in poetry, fiction and criticism. The Independent Booksellers Association named The Red Menace the best paperback book of the year.

Reviews

Anania (The Sky at Ashland), also a gifted novelist and essayist, is a poet of place. "Geography matters," he writes, and the poetry convinces us, quietly, that he is right. His geography is mostly Midwestern, though not exclusively; can be either rural or urban; and is often infused with a sense of the past, though not sentimentally. One of the strongest portions of the book is "The Riversongs of Arion," a ten-part lyrical meditation on the Missouri River that alludes, as well, to Lewis and Clarke's exploration of the Platte during the early 19th century. In "Riversongs" plainness (a condition of landscape and a literary preference) ascends to a music without leaving behind its sources: sewage and catfish, time and detritus. Another memorable poem is "The Fall," narrated by a man for whom slipping in snow becomes an opportunity to consider an aesthetics of survival. There are times when Anania's otherwise elegantly modest rhythms and meanderings of mind give way to a provisional flatness. But it's good to have a large selection of his work.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155921113X
• ISBN 13: 9781559211130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248