My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

Guest, Paul

ISBN 10: 006168516X / ISBN 13: 9780061685163

Published by Ecco, 2008

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Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, 2008.FINE hardcover book in a FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Remainder marked, otherwise, as new. First Edition, First Printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006168516X
• ISBN 13: 9780061685163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

“A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.”
—Dallas Morning News

 

Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest’s My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is an audaciously brilliant collection—a compendium of honesty, strange beauty, and pain—poems Louis Gluck calls, “urgent and moving,” and Robert Haas calls, “vibrant with news of the world seen from an angle of experience not available to most of us.” Mary Karr says, “Guest is a spirit to be reckoned with. Here’s a body of new work to cheer about.” Guest's first book, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry, and his second book, Notes for My Body Double, won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness will be available in May 2010.

About the Author

Paul Guest is the author of three poetry collections, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, which won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry; Notes for My Body Double, which won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize; and My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. The recipient of a 2007 Whiting Award, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.