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Early and Late
Donald Petersen
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Description for Early and Late
Hardback. Here is the first winner of the New Criterion poetry prize. "Petersen has long been an underappreciated master of formal verse. He is a perfectionist, willing to spend actual years polishing and repolishing his poems. If it is hard to tell the older poems from the new, that is because what they really are is timeless."-Donald Justice. Series: New Criterion Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 245.
The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form. The magazine was thus an early leader in that poetic renaissance that has come to be called the New Formalism. Building on its commitment to serious poetry, The New Criterion has established an annual poetry prize, which carries an award of $3,000. The first winner is Donald Petersen, for his book Early and Late. Judges for the year 2000 were Donald Justice, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Robert Richman, and Elizabeth Spires. ... Read more
The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form. The magazine was thus an early leader in that poetic renaissance that has come to be called the New Formalism. Building on its commitment to serious poetry, The New Criterion has established an annual poetry prize, which carries an award of $3,000. The first winner is Donald Petersen, for his book Early and Late. Judges for the year 2000 were Donald Justice, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Robert Richman, and Elizabeth Spires. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
New Criterion Series
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566633970
SKU
V9781566633970
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Ref
99-15
About Donald Petersen
Donald Petersen, born in Minneapolis, studied at Carleton College with Arthur Mizener, Reed Whittemore, and others, spent a year at the Sorbonne, and later, at the Poetry Workshop of the University of Iowa, studied with Paul Engle, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Karl Shapiro. During two summers at the Indiana School of Letters he studied with John Crowe Ransom, ... Read more
Reviews for Early and Late
The poems…are first-rate…Early and Late has to be one of the best collections of the year
The Hudson Review
A natural-born lyricist and an accomplished technician.
Poetry (
The Hudson Review
A natural-born lyricist and an accomplished technician.
Poetry (