Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected

Bennett, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0914061798 / ISBN 13: 9780914061793

Published by Orchises, Washington, 1998

About this Item

8vo, 178 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page & signed a second time under his printed name.

Seller Inventory # 115906

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected
• Publisher: Orchises, Washington
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914061798
• ISBN 13: 9780914061793
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Collects humorous poems about timeless life issues.

From the Back Cover

Coleridge said that poetry must give pleasure, a requirement that Bruce Bennett's work has long filled to overflowing. It is one of the most enjoyable bodies of poetry I know, which isn't to say that Bennett-- master fabulist and satirist, parodist par excellence--does not go deep. Often he compresses realms of wisdom into tight, economical passages. This generous harvest of his new and selected poems will nourish mind, heart, and funnybone. The epigrams in "Mind Sets" are in themselves worth the price of admission, and they're only the briefest of Bennett's wares. You'll find balladry, villanelles, sonnets, masterly free verse, brand new tales that might have come from Grimm's, and a good deal more. Some of Bruce Bennett's poems look likely to stick around for as long as people keep reading American.

-- X. J. Kennedy