Peter Mladinic

Knives on a Table

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of 62 intensely atmospheric poems. In this richly varied collection, Peter Mladinic's myriad voices reveal his extraordinary gift for lyric storytelling. The speakers in his fresh and unexpected dramatic monologues populate a universe of recognizably American experience, telling of joys and horrors, childhood memories, murders committed, lovers desired and lost, lives fractured, heartbreak endured and survived (or not). An always believable surrealism of the everyday sometimes takes us into the dream life of families, births and deaths, moments full of illumination and love, sorrow and exhilaration. Mladinic's poems are all about the inescapable reality of others whom he fully imagines in all their unforgettable poignance and irrepressible vitality. His disciplined, energetic, highly pressured free verse and brilliant attention to local detail celebrate life - its tragedy, its comedy, its romance and abundance - all the while taking into account, with the deepest compassion, the relentless passage of time. - Elizabeth Frank, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1986 for her biography Louise Bogan: A Portrait.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Better Than Starbucks
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781737621904
• ISBN-10: 1737621908
• Artikelnr.: 62922727

Autorenporträt

Peter Mladinic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, where he was a member of the English faculty for thirty years. During that time, he was a board member of the Lea County Museum and president of the Lea County Humane Society. He is the author of seven books of poems; his most recent book, House Sitting, is available from Anxiety Press. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA.