For nearly five decades, readers have been enthralled and enchanted by Peter Everwine's calmly dazzling poems. He's never been a writer clearly aligned with any single school or style, yet adherents of all schools and styles admire his graceful turns of phrase and intense vision. From the Meadow features selections from four previous collections, along with a group of new works. The poems, which include Everwine's deft translations from Hebrew and interpretations from Nahuatl, vibrate with the intensity of small truths distilled to their very essences.

About the Author
Peter Everwine is the author of seven previous poetry collections, including From the Meadow and Collecting the Animals, which won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1972. Everwine is the recipient of numerous honors, including two Pushcart Prizes, an American Ac

Reviews
There is something shining and pure - a radiant clarity, a luminous stillness - at the heart of Peter Everwine's beautiful, mysterious, and necessary work. - Edward Hirsch; ""Peter Everwine's lyrics and translations - for they all seem part of a single voice - haunt me with their clear, crisp, unsentimental, heartbreaking lines.... Unassuming, hard and unswerving as fate itself."" - Paul Mariani; ""There is a profound humility in Everwine's poems, a tenderness for the least detail in the world, which his attention and care make luminous. Bone, leaf, panorama, or part of speech, Everwine works to identify in any particular how our lives - at least in the attention of the moment - might claim transcendence."" - Christopher Buckley; ""What a radiant book - a lifetime of Peter Everwine's quiet, meditative poems, and his shining translations, made (or found) his own."" - Jean Valentine



Book Information
ISBN 9780822958444
Author Peter Everwine
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press