Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt

by Sarah Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Book Overview

The unique and powerful voice of an extraordinary nineteenth-century woman poet

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) now ranks as the most important American woman poet of the nineteenth century after Emily Dickinson. Published heavily in all the period's most prestigious journals, Piatt was widely celebrated by her peers as a gifted stylist in the genteel tradition. Palace-Burner, however, also reveals Piatt's other side: ironic, experimental,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252072812
• ISBN13: 9780252072819
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years