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Natural Causes: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Mark Cox
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Description for Natural Causes: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Paperback. This is a collection of poems by Mark Cox. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts—both real and imagined.
Mark Cox’s youthful bravado has given way in these poems to an assured sense of understatement. The weight of fatherhood, the loss of a grandmother, the fear of loneliness—these are the details around which Cox plumbs the depths of mortality and memory.
Fully comfortable with the domestic tableau from which he writes, this is a poet never complacent. The penchants for metaphor and the resonant turn ... Read more
Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts—both real and imagined.
Mark Cox’s youthful bravado has given way in these poems to an assured sense of understatement. The weight of fatherhood, the loss of a grandmother, the fear of loneliness—these are the details around which Cox plumbs the depths of mortality and memory.
Fully comfortable with the domestic tableau from which he writes, this is a poet never complacent. The penchants for metaphor and the resonant turn ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Poetry Series
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822958390
SKU
V9780822958390
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Ref
99-71
About Mark Cox
Mark Cox, professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has received many prominent honors and awards. He is the author of three previous books of poetry, including Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone.
Reviews for Natural Causes: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
There's a gravity and a sorrowful wisdom in Mark Cox's new poems that make the work of most of the other poets of his generation seem frivolous. - David Wojahn; ""Unflinching and beautifully made, these poems seem cynical only at first glance - then perplexed and tender."" - Leslie Ullman; ""One of the best books I've read in years. In ... Read more