Circle Routes (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback)) - Softcover

Minczeski, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884836771 ISBN 13: 9781884836770

Publisher: The University of Akron Press, 2001

Synopsis

Circle Routes contains a recurring joyfulness that invites us into those brightest of spaces: memory and meditation. The poet's feelings are sometimes sharp with deliberate and thoughtful sarcasm; they can also soar with lyrical sweetness. John Minczeski has a penchant for winged things---not only planes but mayflies, bats, as well as the engagements of the human heart. Even the simple niris that starts life / as boxing gloves and ends with the smell / of bridesmaids becomes, in his attentive poem, an object of weightlessness and wonder. Minczeski takes on many concerns: the personal past, history and its unsettlements, natural history, some poets that read like travel pieces though certainly they are about inner space as much as outer space. Circle Routes is a fine, sweet-spirited, ambitious, beautifully accomplished book.

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About the Author

John Minczeski, a native of South Bend, Indiana, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, teaching poetry in elementary schools and colleges throughout the state. He has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Winner of National Endowment for the Arts and Bush Foundation Artist fellowships, Minczeski has published three previous books of poetry, most recently Gravity (Texas Tech University Press, 1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Akron Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884836771
• ISBN 13: 9781884836770
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 70