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Flares

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Description

The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world.


Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what he discovers in foreign lands with an exacting and hallucinatory eye.


Composed in transit, on diplomatic missions to scores of countries, Flares will endure in the reader's imagination as a series of signals in the night, illuminating the hidden corners of our time here on earth.

Product Details

PublisherWhite Pine Press (NY)
Publish DateMay 11, 2021
Pages102
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781945680465
Dimensions8.9 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and translations; and six books of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War, and Self-Portrait with Dogwood. As director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa since 2000, Merrill has conducted cultural diplomacy missions to more than fifty countries.

Reviews

"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious." --W. S. Merwin

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