Bite Every Sorrow Contributor(s): Ras, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807122645 ISBN-13: 9780807122648 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 97032675 |
Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.11" W x 9.04" (0.30 lbs) 90 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. -- C. K. Williams, from his judge's citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches deserved renown with this prize-winning debut collection. Bite Every Sorrow invites the reader to embrace beauty, loss, outrage, and the world in all its particular heartbreaks and hilarities, because, as Ras asks, What's life without the details? |