Curves and Angles
By (Author) Brad Leithauser
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf
15th December 2008
United States
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
811.6
Paperback
96
Width 150mm, Height 212mm, Spine 8mm
150g
Brad Leithauser's "most satisfying collection in years" (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states.
Theres a down-to-earth wisdom in the way Brad Leithauser sees the transcendent in everyday experience: Instead of trying to make it happen, he lets it happen. Katie Peterson, Chicago Tribune
Why devote oneself to that aggressively minor genre, poetry, when novels and screenplays and tell-all memoirs get more notice and make more money Brad Leithauser answers that question in Curves and Angles. The New York Times Book Review
Brad Leithauser is the author of five previous books of poetry, five novels, a book of essays, and a novel in verse. After many years of teaching at Mount Holyoke College, he is now a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland.