Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007

by Alfred Corn

Book Overview

Alfred Corn is one of the most learned and, at the same time, one of the most accessible contemporary poets. His work often displays a Whitman-like embrace of the many facets of contemporary life while demonstrating a dexterous mastery of received and invented forms and meters.

Corn is also a polymath---even describing himself as "globocentric" in an interview at the end of the book---with knowledge and interests extending to languages,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050508
• ISBN13: 9780472050505
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.7"