The World Falls Away

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6164-2
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

“In The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman’s poems glow with an almost radioactive edginess. Yet, there is also range and substance giving her intense American voice staying power. To use, Whitman's word, her work has ‘amplitude.’” —Diane Wakoski

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, Wanda

Über Autor(innen)

Wanda Coleman, sometimes referred to as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles, is the winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine, a bronze-medal finalist for the National Book Award in 2001 for Mercurochrome, and the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. Also a novelist, essayist, and Emmy-winning television writer, her poems have appeared in more than seventy anthologies. Renowned for her electrifying readings, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband.