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Contributor(s): Collins, Arda (Author), Glück, Louise (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0300148887     ISBN-13: 9780300148886
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2009
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Annotation: Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, these poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both witty and despairing. Collins' emotional complexity and uncommon range make this debut both thrillingly imaginative and ethical in its uncompromising attention to detail. In her Foreword, contest judge Louise Gluck observes, "I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute." Gluck calls Collins' volume "savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable."

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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2008040326
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8" L (0.35 lbs) 112 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/16/2009 pg. 41
 
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Announcing the 2008 recipient of the Yale Younger Poets prize

Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both witty and despairing. Collins' emotional complexity and uncommon range make this debut both thrillingly imaginative and ethical in its uncompromising attention to detail. In her Foreword, contest judge Louise Gl ck observes, "I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute." Gl ck calls Collins' volume "savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable."
 
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