Antiquity
Michael Homolka
(Author)
Mary Ruefle
(Introduction by)
Description
The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice.--Mary Ruefle, from the introduction
Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka's Antiquity offers the present infused with the past, from Ancient Greece to the Holocaust to contemporary battlefields. A haunting and evocative debut.
Michael Homolka lives and works in New York City. Homolka's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Publish Date
July 12, 2016
Pages
64
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.3 X 8.0 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781941411278
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About the Author
Michael Homolka's poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Boulevard, Parnassus, and The Threepenny Review. A graduate of Bennington College's MFA program, he lives in New York City and currently teaches high school English through the NYC Teaching Fellows program. Mary Ruefle is the author of eleven poetry collections and two books of prose. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Writers' Award. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, The Next American Essay, and elsewhere. She has taught at Vermont College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.
Reviews
"It's a quick spin through Homolka's spare, sculpted lines from the collection of Jews' permits to the six-day war to "emaciated lovers" receiving stars from the backs of chariots. Clearly, history, and particularly Jewish history, will be the topic of this Kathryn A. Morton Prize winner, and clearly the language will be punchy and irreverent.... VERDICT: Refreshing, energetic work; many readers will enjoy."
--Library Journal, "Summer Poetry: 13 Smart New Collections from Debut and Veteran Authors Alike" "Homolka's alluring debut seamlessly tiles scenes of past and present to create a mosaic that is constantly conscious of the inescapability of time.... Aware that he is presenting perennial human questions in new imagery, Homolka lets his metaphors do the work so that the craft, not cleverness, shines through."
--Publishers Weekly "Though timeless in its associations...this is a collection infused with the cyclical nature, and often unbearable passage, of time and an unflinching awareness of the horrors human beings can visit upon each other.... Thoughtful, piercing, and sometimes startling in its darker moments, this collection echoes long."
--Booklist
--Library Journal, "Summer Poetry: 13 Smart New Collections from Debut and Veteran Authors Alike" "Homolka's alluring debut seamlessly tiles scenes of past and present to create a mosaic that is constantly conscious of the inescapability of time.... Aware that he is presenting perennial human questions in new imagery, Homolka lets his metaphors do the work so that the craft, not cleverness, shines through."
--Publishers Weekly "Though timeless in its associations...this is a collection infused with the cyclical nature, and often unbearable passage, of time and an unflinching awareness of the horrors human beings can visit upon each other.... Thoughtful, piercing, and sometimes startling in its darker moments, this collection echoes long."
--Booklist
