The Traveler's Calendar

by Daniel Mark Epstein

In this stunning new collection-his first in five years-acclaimed poet Daniel Mark Epstein, whom Donald Hall praised for "a vision as tortured and powerful as early Robert Lowell," returns at the top... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585672424
• ISBN13: 9781585672424
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Great American Poet At The Height of His Powers

Epstein has made quite a name for himself as a biographer, but it's still in his poetry that he truly shines. No poet of his generation has written both lyric and dramatic poetry with such classical grace, poeams at once moving and intellectually rigorous. "The Traveler's Calendar" follows the structure we have come to expect from an Epstein collection: many lyric poems of dazzling imagery and seductive music, like "Boblink" and "The Circle Dance" ("May love like the evening shadows grow/Till light and life pass away") and a tour de force of a dramatic monologue, "The Genie" (Aladdin's--an allegory about the sacrifices of the artist). The book throughout has a sad beauty as Epstein muses on the losses inevitable in middle age. But it's definitely my favorite of his books.