Bibliograph

Spending the winter, Joseph Bottum

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Spending the winter, Joseph Bottum

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spending the winter

Oclc number

1314256676

Responsibility statement

Joseph Bottum

Summary

"The poetry of Spending the Winter is musical and structured, whimsical and piercing, begging to be read aloud when one is not laughing or arrested by an image that hooks the heart. "Poems so severely beautiful that they become unforgettable after one reading," writes one poet. "A throwback to a time when lovers of poetry...looked for poetry of depth, wit, and craft from the likes of Auden and Larkin," adds another. With sections of comedy that show his wit, translations that echo his vast reading, and formalist poetry that reveal his craft, Bottum aims, in the way few poets these days do, at memorable lines and heart-stopping images as he seeks the deep stuff of human experience: God and birth and death-the beautiful and terrifying finitude of life. "We do with words what little words can do," he writes. But in Spending the Winter, Joseph Bottum shows that words can do far more than a little"--, Provided by publisher

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