Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

by Robert Wrigley

Book Overview

A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake--Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions--Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143123076
• ISBN13: 9780143123071
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher