Field Knowledge

Creech, Morri

ISBN 10: 1904130232 / ISBN 13: 9781904130239

Published by Waywiser Press, 2006

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Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2005. Booklist Top of the List for 2006.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Field Knowledge
• Publisher: Waywiser Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904130232
• ISBN 13: 9781904130239
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Printing: 1st printing
• Condition: As new
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poems explore the work of Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Sir Issac Newton, the myth of Orpheus, the relationship between the sacred and the profane, and the modern world's tendency to distance itself from the sacred.

About the Author

Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA, in 1970 and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. He is the author of three collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals(Kent State University Press, 2001) FIELD KNOWLEDGE (Waywiser, 2006), which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet's Prize, and THE SLEEP OF REASON (Waywiser, 2013), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisana Arts councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where he teaches courses in both the undergraduate creative writing program and in the low residency MFA program. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two children.