The Fugitive Self - by John Wheatcroft (Paperback)

About the Book

Life works--1964 to present--by major living American poet, contemporary of Lowell, Wilbur, and Warren.

Book Synopsis

The Fugitive Self is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion.

Nothing we'd been counting on
all the time we'd waited
was waiting when we arrived.

Only more waiting--

John Wheatcroft is the author of twenty books in three genres, a WWII combat veteran, and professor emeritus at Bucknell University. He has a well-known following--Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Tom Gardner, Betsy Sholl--who believes his work is seminal to understanding violence now and in the second half of the twentieth century.

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About the Author

Novelist, poet, and playwright, John Wheatcroft founded and directed the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and was the first director of Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. He is Professor Emeritus at Bucknell University and the author of 17 books in three genres as well as work in all major literary journals.