The Boxer of Quirinal

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Price
$22.00  $20.46
Publisher
Red Hen Press
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Pages
96
Dimensions
9.13 X 6.06 X 0.79 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781636280912

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About the Author

John Barr grew up in a rural township outside Chicago. An honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, he served on Navy destroyers for five years, including three tours to Vietnam. His poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, and Flaunt Magazine among many periodicals, and in anthologies published by Bloodaxe Books, National Geographic, and the Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. He was president of the Poetry Foundation and publisher of Poetry magazine for its first decade. The Boxer of Quirinal is his fifth book of poems to be published with Red Hen Press, and his tenth to be published over the past thirty years. He currently resides in Greenwich, CT.

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"John Barr's collection takes its title from an ancient Greek statue that was unearthed after 2,000 years--a fitting emblem for a poet inspired by the deep connections between past and present, history and nature. Whether he is writing about mushrooms on a forest floor or a Civil War battle, Barr offers pleasures that are seldom found in contemporary poetry: a strong formal imagination and the company of an adventurous mind."
--Adam Kirsch, author of The Discarded Life