Meteorology - Softcover

Ulku, Alpay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880238721 ISBN 13: 9781880238721

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd., 1999

Synopsis

"Heat Lightning, Progress, Cat, George Orwell"--there's little the poems of Alpay Ulku do not address.

About this title

About the Author

Alpay Ulku's first book of poems, Meteorology, was selected as a Notable Debut by the Academy of American Poets. He was born in Turkey, grew up in Canada and Engla nd, and has lived throughout the United States. He received an MFA from the Iowa W riters' Workshop and fellowships from the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in P rovincetown, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughs hares, Witness,the Gettysburg Review and the Malahat Review. Alpay lives outside C hicago with his wife, the writer Anne-Marie Gallagher, and their Maine Coon, cat M au-Mau Kitty Gallagher-Ulku.

From the Inside Flap

From the Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa

Ulku is a master of juxtaposition. He plants little imagistic depth charges along the way. He seems to be aware of how one phrase lives beside another, how this dualism changes the whole picture -- like musical notes. The silence. The said. The Space. The pace. And, in this sense, he knows that the brain will leap forth to create a connection. Ulku orchestrates and controls the tension in each poem. Here's a young poet who knows what to leave out, what to sacrifice without making his poetry oblique.

Edition details

• Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880238721
• ISBN 13: 9781880238721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 90