Poems' Progress - Softcover

Barker, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888842350 ISBN 13: 9781888842357

Publisher: Absey & Company, 2002

Synopsis

Poems' Progress features poems from various stages of Barker's career, each of which is accompanied by an informal, conversational essay on the background and process of writing and rewriting the poem. Including examples of drafts and revisions, the book offers a rare and unique insight into one poet's processes.

About this title

About the Author:

Barker is the author of three collections of poetry (Winter Chickens, 1990, Let the Ice Speak, 1991, and Way of Whiteness, 2000), as well as a selection of translations from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore (Final Poems, with Saranindranath Tagore). She has also published a critical study of Emily Dickinson and a co-edited collection of essays on the poet Ruth Stone. Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, a Fulbright lectureship, as well as the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar, the Literary Excellence Award from Gemini Ink, and the Violet Crown Book Award, she is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Review:

--a highly recommended addition to academic literary reference collections. -- Midwest Book Review, May 2002

Anyone interested in how poetry is written--how it affects and is affected by life--should find this book fascinating. -- Iconoclast Review, July 2002

Barker is a poetic companion...one would do well to travel with...The lived wisdom that fills her book infuses her poetry... -- Feelings of the Heart, Summer 2002

Insightful and inspirational, Poems' Progress opens the mind's eye to...the wonder of the human creative process. -- Small Press Bookwatch, May 2002

Insightful and inspirational, opens the mind's eye to a clear view of the wonder of the creative process. -- Small Press Bookwatch, May 2002

Poems' Progress is a unique poetry book for all ages. It features...Wendy's original free-verse poetry...and is a highly recommended addition... -- Midwest Book Review, May 2002

...a work well worth the investment...a poetic companion who one would do well to travel with and break bread. -- Feelings of the Heart, Summer 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Absey & Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1888842350
• ISBN 13: 9781888842357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 177