The Language of Yes - Softcover

Peternel, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564743543 ISBN 13: 9781564743541

Publisher: Fithian Pr, 2001

Synopsis

These poems, both formal and free, are carefully crafted. In fact, many of them are about the craft of poetry, and the lonely but rewarding life of the poet. But these poems are also about human history and traditional lore, from Odysseus to Captain Kirk, from Adam and Eve to Neil Armstrong.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Peternel has taught literature and writing at Indiana University, American University, Catholic University, Georgetown University and Long Island University. She is the author of Howl and Hosanna (Whelks Walk Press, 1997), Nintotem: Indiana Stories (Whelks Walk Press, 1999), and many poems, stories, and essays in various publications. She is currently at work on a book about the double character in modern fiction. Peternel lives and writes in Southampton, New York.

From the Inside Flap

From the back cover:

We re poets thanks to southern winds that blew from Araby up to Provençe-- To troubadours and minnesingers and the minstrels at the Courts of Aragon, Navarre--And to Petrarca, Dante, Surrey, Wyatt, Shakespeare, and to

me.

--from The Language of Yes

Edition details

• Publisher: Fithian Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564743543
• ISBN 13: 9781564743541
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 93