My Shining Archipelago

by Talvikki Ansel

Book Overview

The winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Talvikki Ansel for My Shining Archipelago.

"Ansel s poetry is refreshingly original," says the distinguished poet and contest judge James Dickey. "She renders the heat, the closeness, the mystery, and the terrible fear of the undisclosed, the lurking, the waiting to happen. This is true imagination, true craft."

Flemish Beauty
Yesterday, all winter,
I had not thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300070322
• ISBN13: 9780300070323
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

She shells see shells by the sea sure

Telvicki Ansel communicates the multiple awareness of self, nature, and the unmanefest. She can have you hold a pear as she has held it, and feel the humorous frustration of raising miniature horses. "My Shining Archipelago" is a real find.