Collected Poems 1953-1983

by Lucien Stryk

Book Overview

Lucien Stryk's poetry is made of simple things - frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor's fuss over his lawn - set into language that is at once direct and powerful.

Years of translating Zen poems and religious texts have helped give Stryk a special sense of the particular, a feel for those details which, because they are so much a part of our lives, seem to define us. Stryk's poetry is neither an attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804008566
• ISBN13: 9780804008563
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"