Splendor (American Poets Continuum) - Softcover

Kronen, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192991878X ISBN 13: 9781929918782

Publisher: BOA Editions, 2006

Synopsis

Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. Some of the poems in Splendor focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident. Splendor also includes love poems to the author's wife and daughter. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and use formal elements such as sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others. Steve Kronen's first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Poems from Splendor have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Kronen's (b. 1953) first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. His collection, The World Before Them, was a finalist for the 1998 Di Castagnola Award from the PSA. His chapbook appeared in The Drunken Boat. Fellowships include the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Breadloaf, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the PSA.

From the Back Cover

Kronen's Splendor represents the mature work of a poet doubly gifted. Page after page makes clear, this is a fully conceived, highly accomplished book that demonstrates the impressive range of a powerful talent. - Wyatt Prunty

Kronen's word wizardry not only provides a feast of formal patterns, but his poems are filled with passion and wit. - Maxine Kumin

Kronen repeatedly surprises the reader, not with the cheap tricks of a writer who is only interested in surprise, but with the insights of someone who has thought his way past cleverness and other glittering falsenesses to wisdom itself, even if it is a provisional wisdom. Splendor is a splendid achievement. - Andrew Hudgins

Edition details

• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192991878X
• ISBN 13: 9781929918782
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 73