Nine Worthies - Softcover

Knox, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933517484 ISBN 13: 9781933517483

Publisher: Wave Books, 2010

Synopsis

Poetry. This hand-sewn limited edition has a letterpress cover and design influenced by 18th century typesetting and binding techniques. A stunning work of prose and poetry by eminent poet Caroline Knox, NINE WORTHIES operates as a sort of historical novella, telling the story of the life and times of American portraitist Nathaniel Smibert in nine individual portraits interwoven with the perspective of the artist.

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About the Author

Caroline Knox's NINE WORTHIES was published by Wave Books in 2010. QUAKER GUNS (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. HE PAVES THE ROAD WITH IRON BARS, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A BEAKER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989), and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994). Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry (whose Bess Hokin Prize she has won), TriQuarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Yale Review. Her poems have been in Best American Poetry (1988 and 1994), and on Poetry Daily. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. She was the judge for the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America in Spring 2003, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2003-2004. With Matthea Harvey and Peter Gizzi, she was a judge of the James Laughlin Award 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wave Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933517484
• ISBN 13: 9781933517483
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48