Rescue the Dead: Poems

by David Ignatow

Book Overview

Poetic explorations of a celebrated poet's inner world.

With that three-line epigraph, David Ignatow declares the thrust and purpose of his compelling new book. Unlike his previous work, which was written largely in reaction to the world about him--the urban landscape with its clamor and violence and business pressures--these new poems turn inward. They explore and confirm the individual in his never ending search for awareness and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819510378
• ISBN13: 9780819510372
• Release Date: March 1968
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.0"