O Paradise: Poems (SIMMs, Arkansas Edition)

Trowbridge, William

ISBN 10: 1557283427 / ISBN 13: 9781557283429

Published by University of Arkansas Press, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: O Paradise: Poems (SIMMs, Arkansas Edition)
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557283427
• ISBN 13: 9781557283429
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

As Howard Nemerov has said in praise of William Trowbridge’s first poetry collection: “he is very much up on the peculiarities of our little world … He is both funny and serious, seriously funny; probably the best, if not the only, way of dealing with the complex predicament.”

Continuing in this third collection of poems to work in the realm of the serio-comic, Trowbridge explores other borderlands—between the tangible world and the intuitive one, between actuality and memory, between consciousness and unconsciousness, between self as flesh and blood and self as ghost.

This is fast-faced, nervy poetry whose witty, vernacular language moves surprisingly toward transcendence.

About the Author

William Trowbridge is Distinguished University Professor at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, where he lives with his wife, Sue. He has previously published The Book of Kong and Enter Dark Stranger.