Chance Ransom

by Kevin Stein

Book Overview

Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate. Often improvisational and always lyrical, Stein's poems move effortlessly through the art of Beckmann and Degas, the music of Bob Marley and garage bands, and the pathos of cancer patients,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068629
• ISBN13: 9780252068621
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"