Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990

by Michael Burkard

Over the course of his distinguished career, Michael Burkard has drawn praise from poets as diverse as John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Jean Valentine, James Tate, Tomas Transtr mer, and Timothy Liu for a poetry that "returns us to a primary strangeness." This selection offers Burkard aficionados and those new to his work an opportunity to encounter what Ashbery has praised as Burkard's "urgent messages from a distant galaxy." According to poet-critic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976718561
• ISBN13: 9780976718567
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 7.9"