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Wise poison : poems / David Rivard

By:

Rivard, Robert, , 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press , c1996.Description: 69 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

1555972519

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811.54 RIV

LOC classification:

PS3568.I8285 W57 1996

Summary: In his first collection, Torque, David Rivard proved that he had a storyteller's ear and an eye for gritty detail. In Wise Poison, winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Rivard relies less on setting or personae, more on his own delicate wit and sheer poetic nerve (in consecutive poems, he steals titles from Baudelaire and the country-western great Merle Travis). The gamble pays off. With this collection, Rivard has come into a truly American voice, at once eccentric and universal.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811.54 RIV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		063046

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"Winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of the Adacemy of American Poets"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69).

In his first collection, Torque, David Rivard proved that he had a storyteller's ear and an eye for gritty detail. In Wise Poison, winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Rivard relies less on setting or personae, more on his own delicate wit and sheer poetic nerve (in consecutive poems, he steals titles from Baudelaire and the country-western great Merle Travis). The gamble pays off. With this collection, Rivard has come into a truly American voice, at once eccentric and universal.

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