The Word for Everything - Softcover

Mitchell, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886157065 ISBN 13: 9781886157064

Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Mitchell, Roger

About this title

About the Author

Roger Mitchell is the author of four other books of poetry, including Adirondack, also published by BkMk Press. His poetry has won a number of awards, including the Midland Poetry Award, a Borestone Mountain Award, a Chester H. Jones Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission. His book of non-fiction, Clear Pond: The Reconstruction of a Life (Syracuse University Press), won the John Ben Snow award. He has been an editor, a reviewer, and an essayist. He teaches in the English Department at Indiana University where he was for many years director of the creative writing program.

From the Back Cover

"Many poets write about memory, but few manage to track the actual motions of the mind as it roams across the past. In The Word for Everything, Roger Mitchell delineates that fine line between the thing remembered and the mechanics of remembering. The poems are poignant and intinate, but they're also wonderfully brainy. Their self-scrutiny keeps them tough and lean."

--Chase Twichell "Half dream, half wry, hard-bitten quite ordinary fact, Roger Mitchell's poems are meditations in the freshest, most unextravagant sense. It's this unsentimental goodness in the work that most moves me. And how each poem turns and turns again, making its way by slow surprise. This is a book to treasure."

--Marianne Boruch

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886157065
• ISBN 13: 9781886157064
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 54