Imagining Paradise New and Selected Poems

Name: Imagining Paradise New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9781609803742

ISBN-10: 1609803744

ISBN-13: 9781609803742

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barry Gifford

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A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death and everything in between with equanimity, holding a steady hand to the quivering breast wherever there is breath.Published inThe New Yorker,La Nouvelle Revue Française, and in nearly a hundred magazines and poetry journals from Los Angeles to Tokyo, from Lawrence, Kansas to Rome, Madrid, Paris, London, Beijing, and Bucharest, poems by Barry Gifford have been describing and changing our world for nearly half a century. Here in one volume for…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.70" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Poet, novelist, and playwright Barry Gifford was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1946. He briefly attended both the University of Missouri and Cambridge University. He published a book of poems in 1973 and started writing novels in 1980. He collaborated with David Lynch on Lost Highway and the HBO series Hotel Room. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.