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The Contracted World - (Pitt Poetry) by Peter Meinke (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections.
  • Florida Book Award (Poetry) 2006 3rd Winner
  • About the Author: Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University.
  • 128 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: Pitt Poetry

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About the Book



Passionate and compassionate, these poems are both deeply imagined and accessible to the general reader, focusing on personal and political life in American society.



Book Synopsis



The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets.
The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms are eroding, and our choices seem fewer and less attractive. Despite feelings of anger and loneliness, the narrator speaks to us in a personal, accessible, and often humorous voice.



Review Quotes




[Meinke's poems] never omit the music of language and a real search for meaning; and while by turns playful, satirical and paradoxical, they never undercut their honesty by descending into nonsense.-- "Coldfront Magazine"

Each poem is striking, and many are immediate favorites, all composed of vigor, sentiment, the high idealism and the self-humor that are particularly ours, and dished up in the twang and slang of American plainsong.-- "Publishers Weekly on The Night Train and the Golden Bird"

If you are one of the millions who is bored, perplexed or overawed by contemporary poetry, do the muse, and yourself, a favor: buy and read Peter Meinke's Night Watch on the Chesapeake. . . . His strong instinct for significance and an ear always cocked for the clang and splash and euphony of language . . . sounds spoken, fresh, not 'poetic.'-- "St. Petersburg Times on Night Watch on the Chesapeake"

Meinke hits his real stride, roving with eager curiosity and honesty from free verse to well-wrought sonnets and back again. . . . Meinke's control over his medium is remarkably secure. He can push traditional verse toward doggerel without endangering his honesty.-- "Poetry Magazine on Trying to Surprise God"

There is a little of the Ancient Mariner in the tenacity and urgency with which Peter Meinke addresses his readers. These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and when they release us we are delighted, shaken, and considerably wiser.-- "Ted Kooser on Scars"



About the Author



Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published seven prior books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.26 Inches (H) x 6.36 Inches (W) x .39 Inches (D)
Weight: .51 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Pitt Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 128
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Peter Meinke
Language: English
Street Date: January 20, 2006
TCIN: 93118590
UPC: 9780822959182
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-8937
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.39 inches length x 6.36 inches width x 9.26 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.51 pounds
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