×


 x 

Shopping cart
Ned Balbo - Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry) - 9780268021849 - V9780268021849
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry)

€ 108.77
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry) Hardcover. Ned Balbo's 2004 Sandeen Prize-winning collection of poetry seeks a voice for contemporary and historical figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love. In these poems, Lives of the Sleepers explores the connections of men and women across the centuries, and interrogates those patterns that reassert themselves. Series: Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.

Ned Balbo's Sandeen Prize-winning collection of poetry seeks a voice for contemporary and historical figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love. In these assured and powerful poems, Balbo's confidence in lyric, narrative, and dramatic forms is always evident: lovers whirl in Dante's circle, saints suffer for their faith, and characters from Hitchcock films are caught in traps of their own making.

With energy and insight, Balbo gives us Alice Liddell's last word on Lewis Carroll's infatuation, a Victorian heroine who uncovers a wax museum's hidden crimes, and a bestiary where courtship rituals are both savage and redemptive. ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
Number of Pages
102
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268021849
SKU
V9780268021849
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ned Balbo
Ned Balbo's first poetry collection Galileo's Banquet received the Towson University Prize for Literature. He has also received the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. He has been a fellow in poetry at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative ... Read more

Reviews for Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry)
“Nearly every poem in Balbo's second book offers a dramatic moment snatched from history or the archive, where the desires of the senses, of the body, negotiate their relation to intellectual love, the desires of the soul.” —Pleiades "Among Balbo's most significant achievements in this volume is the way he inspects humanity from a biological perspective. He often reveals what ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry)


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!