The Two Yvonnes

by Jessica Greenbaum

Book Overview

This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects and metaphor share highest honors, attempt revelation through close observation of the everyday. Written in "plain American that cats and dogs can read," as Marianne Moore phrased it, these contemporary lyrics bring forward the challenges of Wislawa Szymborska, the reportage of Yehuda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691156638
• ISBN13: 9780691156637
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"