Rider: The Rider Quintet, Vol. 1

By Mark Rudman

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995)

Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of the diaspora.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819512176
• ISBN13: 9780819512178
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up