It Is If I Speak

by Joe Wenderoth

Book Overview

New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation. In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies "It is if I speak that I will be destroyed." Wenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, "Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563900
• ISBN13: 9780819563903
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"