A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems

by D Nurkse and D. Nurkse

Book Overview

In an illuminating collection of selected poems over thirty-five years, one of our most essential American poets casts a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories.

D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593321405
• ISBN13: 9780593321409
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"