Description
The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets. The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms are eroding, and our choices seem fewer and less attractive. Despite feelings of anger and loneliness, the narrator speaks to us in a personal, accessible, and often humorous voice.
About the Author
Peter Meinke is emeritus professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. He has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, Liquid Paper, and The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems. Meinke is the recipient of many awards,
Awards
Commended for Florida Book Award (Poetry) 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822959182
Author Peter Meinke
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Peter Meinke is emeritus professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. He has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, Liquid Paper, and The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems. Meinke is the recipient of many awards,
Awards
Commended for Florida Book Award (Poetry) 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822959182
Author Peter Meinke
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
