Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 19752017
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Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 19752017
By (Author) Eleanor Wilner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
25th November 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
811.54
Physical Properties
Hardback
232
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry Before Our Eyes gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work. A poet who engages with history in
Reviews
"The book is a feast. And if you flip to the back, where her earliest poems are, you can see Wilner, right from the beginning, working with the question of a new mythmaking."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's
Author Bio
Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, most recently Tourist in Hell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair. In 2019, she received the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, the highest award presented by the Poetry Society of America. Her other awards include the Juniper Prize, three Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, and her work appears in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and lives in Philadelphia.
