At last-a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades. With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden,
Armored Hearts: Selected & New Poems
โ Scribed by David Bottoms
- Book ID
- 110670130
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781556590733
- ASIN
- B00BKRVTYS
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Armored Hearts , combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who tells a story cleanly and convincingly, and yet who will not close down mysterious and complicated things about life that simply defy such closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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