The Needle: Poems

By Jennifer Grotz

Following her debut collection, Cusp, chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa to win the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize, the composed, observed quality of Jennifer Grotz s "The Needle" will remind readers of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Whether she is describing a town square in Krakow, where many of these poems are set, the ponies of Ocracoke Island, a boy playing a violin, or clouds, she finds the lyrical details that release an atmosphere of heightened, transcendent attention in which the things of the world become the World, what Zbigniew Herbert called royal silence. "

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547444125
• ISBN13: 9780547444123
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 6.0"