The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected

by Lynn Emanuel

Book Overview

Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963698
• ISBN13: 9780822963691
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.7"