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Thieves' Latin (Iowa Poetry Prize)
Peter Jay Shippy
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Description for Thieves' Latin (Iowa Poetry Prize)
Paperback. These poems provide a contemporary, ironic and tender view of America, layering wordplay and sentiment. The collection won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
Ah, Writ happens, Like the con men who rely on thieves' Latin to ply their trade, the poems in Peter Jay Shippy's award-winning collection don't play well with other poems. They are difficult. They rave. They are unsettling and blunt. They crash cars and ride tsunamis and hitch rides on tugs. They also provide a contemporary, ironic, and tender view of America, all the while layering wordplay, cleverness, and sentiment. Shippy's narrators ""dance like night writing""; they ""witness the reverse / side of actions"" and ""take a walk on the wing""; they feel ""nothing but articulation"" and attach ""our planet ... Read more
Ah, Writ happens, Like the con men who rely on thieves' Latin to ply their trade, the poems in Peter Jay Shippy's award-winning collection don't play well with other poems. They are difficult. They rave. They are unsettling and blunt. They crash cars and ride tsunamis and hitch rides on tugs. They also provide a contemporary, ironic, and tender view of America, all the while layering wordplay, cleverness, and sentiment. Shippy's narrators ""dance like night writing""; they ""witness the reverse / side of actions"" and ""take a walk on the wing""; they feel ""nothing but articulation"" and attach ""our planet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9780877458401
SKU
V9780877458401
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About Peter Jay Shippy
Peter Jay Shippy holds a BFA from Emerson College and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Epoch, Poetry Ireland, Another Chicago Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Expression, Five A.M., Slope, X-Connect, the Harvard Review, and the Denver Quarterly. In 2002, he was awarded an artist's grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and named ... Read more
Reviews for Thieves' Latin (Iowa Poetry Prize)
What binds the marvelous to the mundane is the constant are of mind. In Thieves' Latin, Peter Jay Shippy articulates that mind, catching its accents in acts of nature, of culture, and of the Divine. Here I sense a bright, bright motion, and it is thrilling. - Donald Revell, author of Arcady