Description
April Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems-from a memoir sequence about the East Village in the 1980s, to "disheveled" sonnets of self-interrogation, to darkly comic hallucinations.
About the Author
April Bernard is the author of five previous poetry collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. The recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center, she lives in Upstate New York and teaches at Skidmore College and the Bennington College MFA writing seminars.
Reviews
"A poet of obvious gifts and power and ambition, unsparing and brilliant." -- W. S. Merwin "A marvelous poet."
Book Information
ISBN 9780393325089
Author April Bernard
Format Paperback
Page Count 90
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 123g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 8mm
About the Author
April Bernard is the author of five previous poetry collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. The recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center, she lives in Upstate New York and teaches at Skidmore College and the Bennington College MFA writing seminars.
Reviews
"A poet of obvious gifts and power and ambition, unsparing and brilliant." -- W. S. Merwin "A marvelous poet."
Book Information
ISBN 9780393325089
Author April Bernard
Format Paperback
Page Count 90
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 123g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 8mm
