Practical Gods
pulitzer prize winner
$44.01
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2001
Summary
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.A critically acclaimed literary treasure, Practical Gods is a captivatingpoetrycollectionthat transcends conventional perspectives.Many of the poems inthis eighth collection by Carl Dennis involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141002309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141002301 |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
| Author: | Carl Dennis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 148mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis is the author of nine books of poetry, including Practical Gods, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, in 2000 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association for his contribution to American poetry. He teaches in the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is a sometime member of the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.
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