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Departures: Selected Poems

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ISBN-10: 1848612974

ISBN-13: 9781848612976

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: David Wevill

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Poetry. This second edition, issued on the 10th anniversary of its first publication, is presented in a larger format, with a larger typeface, and with a few very minor typographical errors corrected, but is otherwise unchanged. This collection covers the entire poetic career of David Wevill, who has faded from view as a poet in the UK since his departure for the United States in the early 1970s. His first four collections won many prizes and gained him a reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation, as well as a place in all the major anthologies of the period and in the seminal Penguin Modern Poets series. His subsequent collections, with the exception of a slim chapbook from…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440

Srikanth Reddy's first collection, Facts for Visitors , received the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2005. His second book, Voyager , was published by the University of California Press in 2011. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.David Wevill was born a Canadian in Japan in 1935, and was educated in both Canada and England. He has lived in Burma and in Spain but has made his home in Austin, Texas, for the past forty years. While resident in England in the 1960s and 1970s, he established a substantial reputation as a poet, publishing four volumes…