Hands of the Saddlemaker

by Nicholas Samaras

Book Overview

Nicholas Samaras's Hands of the Saddlemaker, the winning volume in the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 710 entries in this annual competition. The broad theme of Samaras's poems is the connection between eternal things and the passing world, between our sense of exile and our sense of commonality. Equilibrium between these worlds is achieved only through human feeling, through language. Samaras examines the commonality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300054580
• ISBN13: 9780300054583
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This is an amazing volume of poetry. It is very modern and refreshing. No cobwebs here!