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New and Selected Poems Hardcover - 2004
by Ryan, Michael, Simic, Charles
- Used
Description
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- Title New and Selected Poems
- Author Ryan, Michael, Simic, Charles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 148
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-04-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # 15585802-20
- ISBN 9780618408542 / 0618408541
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.32 x 0.65 in (23.52 x 16.05 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003067781
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Summary
Ryan’s poems are filled with the stuff of everyday life: What-a-Burger, Space Invaders, the hood ornament / on some chopped down hot rod of the apocalypse.” He observes his subjects in carefully wrought detail and with a fierce compassion, describing stupid posters of rock stars” in the bedroom of a murdered teenager, or a homeless boy straggle-haired, bloated, / eyes shining like ice.” As Ryan writes of others, in a final Reminder” to himself: their light their light / pulls so surely. Let it.”
This long-awaited collection shows Ryan at the height of his powers. As William H. Pritchard said in The Nation, Unlike too many poets who tumble into print at the first twitch of feeling, Ryan takes time to listen to himself, and such listening contributes immeasurably to the subtlety of his address to the reader . . . [He] reminds us on every page that poems can be about lives, and about them in ways most urgent and delicate.”