Freezing (First Book)

Steve Langan

ISBN 10: 193097406X / ISBN 13: 9781930974067

Published by New Issues Poetry and Prose January 2001, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freezing (First Book)
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose January 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193097406X
• ISBN 13: 9781930974067
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Steve Langan’s brilliant first book is full of passion suffused with irony, poems cagily built to deconstruct sentimentality by using self-consciousness as a kind of comic foil. But for all the poet’s clever feints and evasions, at the core of the work beats the heart of a romantic. Langan’s methods are luminously impressionistic, and the poems percolate with image and materiality, inflection and the full-throated music of language. Freezing glitters with the distant light (or explosions of inner light) of a hundred small moments colliding where perception meets the self in the “unbeautiful city.”

About the Author

STEVE LANGAN graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellowship from the James Michener Foundation. He is the author of Freezing (New Issues, 2001), Notes on Exile and Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005), and Meet Me at the Happy Bar (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). Langan serves on the teaching and residency faculty of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.