A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems
By (Author) Vern Rutsala
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
8th July 2004
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
811.54
Short-listed for Oregon Book Awards (Poetry) 2005
Paperback
160
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 7mm
201g
"Sounding at times like plot summaries of stories by John Cheever that Cheever never got around to writing and at other times like witty fables, or meditations on the tricks of language, Vern Rutsalas wonderful prose paragraphs are at all times rewarding journeys into the inner life, the secret life of three oclock in the morning, when everyday defeats acquire a weird glamour and heroism."Charles Baxter
Vern Rutsala, a professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, has published nine previous collections of his poetry. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Juniper Prize, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Oregon Masters and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Vern Rutsala