Summary
D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9⁄11-a metaphorical “burnt island,” where diggers doze on their shovels, citizens contribute bottles of water, M&M’s, and casseroles to recovery e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375710803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375710809 |
| Author: | D. Nurkse |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 149mm x 9mm |
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D. Nurkse
D. Nurkse is the author of eight books of poetry. He has received the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and other awards. He has also written widely on human rights. D. Nurkse’s The Fall is available in Knopf paperback.
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