| The Destroyer in the Glass: Volume 110 Contributor(s): Warren, Noah (Author), Phillips, Carl (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0300217153 ISBN-13: 9780300217155 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2015953455 |
| Series: Yale Younger Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.30 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done--to ourselves and to others--in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form, rhyme, and allusion with a freer, expressive style, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through, by, and in language. Since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has launched the careers of poets as esteemed and varied as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. Judge Carl Phillips praises The Destroyer in the Glass for "its wedding of intellect, heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self." |