Description
A son is born early, as if coming up over the horizon before his own dawn. An elderly father lingers at life's other horizon. These poems use language which is dense and clear, playful and sombre, with an emotional amplitude which is suggestive of Behn's own musical training.
About the Author
Robin Behn is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Paper Bird and The Red Hour. She directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama.
Reviews
Horizon Note turns speech into music, even as it resists and questions the slippery, beloved, difficult stuff it's made of Behn makes live, breathing art out of language's terrible limitations, the paradoxical ways it both enables and betrays us. - Mark Doty
Awards
Winner of Brittingham Prize in Poetry 2001.
Book Information
ISBN 9780299175306
Author Robin Behn
Format Hardback
Page Count 100
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 162mm * 13mm
About the Author
Robin Behn is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Paper Bird and The Red Hour. She directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama.
Reviews
Horizon Note turns speech into music, even as it resists and questions the slippery, beloved, difficult stuff it's made of Behn makes live, breathing art out of language's terrible limitations, the paradoxical ways it both enables and betrays us. - Mark Doty
Awards
Winner of Brittingham Prize in Poetry 2001.
Book Information
ISBN 9780299175306
Author Robin Behn
Format Hardback
Page Count 100
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 162mm * 13mm
