Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems

by Richard Katrovas

Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where "the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us." Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887485340
• ISBN13: 9780887485343
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"