Shakespeare's Horse: Poems - Hardcover

Joseph Harrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904130801 ISBN 13: 9781904130802

Publisher: The Waywiser Press, 2016

Synopsis

Joseph Harrison's third collection of poetry displays all the formal adroitness that characterized his two previous books, now applied to a greater range of subjects and poetic genres. Poems that speak to our current condition and poems in various historical settings, evocations of Italian and Latin precursors as well as English and American ones, and forms that range from short lyrics to longer meditations in blank verse and terza rima combine to produce a volume of extraordinary variety and scope. Shakespeare's Horse blends the past with the present, the personal with the universal, and a resonant music with an idiosyncratic vision that sees the world afresh.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His first book of poems, Someone Else s Name (Waywiser, 2003), was chosen as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. He was awarded an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. A second book of poetry, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser in 2008. In 2009 Harrison received a fellowship in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Waywiser Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1904130801
• ISBN 13: 9781904130802
• Binding: Hardcover