The Nature of Things Fragile

Poems

Peter Vertacnik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

96 Seiten

2024
Encounter Books,USA (Verlag)
978-1-64177-365-2 (ISBN)

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In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, both recent and long past (“Face Value,” “Odd Elegy,” “Trace,”); the memories of old houses and towns left behind (“Departure,” Sugar Beets,” “Mourning Doves”); and the vanishing of once-ubiquitous analog particulars (“Apology to Candles,” “Dial Tone,” “In Praise of Blank Cassettes”). It is indeed a book of elegies, but one that also celebrates the people, places, and things it laments, preserving their names and details while laying them to rest.

The Nature of Things Fragile is the winner of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize.

PETER VERTACNIK was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He holds degrees in creative writing and English from the University of Florida, Texas Tech University, and Penn State University. His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in 32 Poems, Bad Lilies, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, The New Criterion, Phoebe, Plume, The Spectator (World), THINK, and Water~Stone Review. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where he teaches at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-64177-365-0 / 1641773650
ISBN-13	978-1-64177-365-2 / 9781641773652
Zustand	Neuware