Field of Light and Shadow by David Young - ISBN: 9781524712334
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Midwestern landscapes, love, loss, and light: A poet’s crystal vision.

Field of Light and Shadow

Selected and New Poems, Expanded Edition

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    21 March 2023

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Summary

A gorgeous selection of the humane and moving poetry of David Young, a celebrated poet of the midwestern landscape and the people who live in it, with an expanded section featuring sixteen new poems exclusive to the paperback edition.

A newly expanded career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language, and …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781524712334
ISBN-10:1524712337
Author:David Young
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Imprint:Alfred A. Knopf
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:21 March 2023
Weight:414g
Dimensions:211mm x 147mm x 23mm
About The Author

David Young

David Young is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Field of Light and Shadow, Black Lab and At the White Window. He is a well-known translator of the Chinese poets and of the poems of Petrarch. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships as well as a Pushcart Prize, he is the Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press.

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