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University of Pittsburgh Press

For the Scribe

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For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in these pages, both in short lyrics and in several lengthy sequences. The poems also evidence the mastery of technique for which Wojahn is renowned, whether he is writing in fixed forms or in free verse. For the Scribe is the most ambitious and searching collection thus far from a poet who has been a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the William Carlos Williams Book Award.

Book Details

Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822964544
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
128
Authors:
David Wojahn
Published Date:
2017-02-13
Language:
English

About David Wojahn

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, David Wojahn won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for his first collection, Icehouse Lights (Yale University Press, 1982), selected by Richard Hugo. His later collections include Mystery Train (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990), built around a sequence of sonnets on rock and roll history; Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004 (Pittsburgh, 2006); and World Tree (Pittsburgh, 2011), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.

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