Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems

by Robert Wrigley

Book Overview

One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first six books.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014303779X
• ISBN13: 9780143037798
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The sea and its enormous restraint

He does the things that you can't learn in school. I understand what he means when he says, "I mean the sea and its enormous restraint," but I can't explain how I understand. He has found some angle in the words that we recognize. I give him less than five stars because I believe that he is deliberately modest, and has no interest in being Auden, or Eliot, or anything but what he is. That's enough for him and enough for me. These are only, and deliberately, "earthly meditations." The style isn't always the man, but this time it is. Fine poems.

Wonderful!

Robert Wrigley is one of my favorite poets, he writes beautifully. This is an excellent collection of his work.

Very Good book!

Robert Wrigley is an amazing poet. If you are looking for something that will give a good idea what he is about, this is it. I recently met him myself at reading. I highly recommend this book and to see him in read/talk.