The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems

by Peter Meinke

Book Overview

The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets. The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959186
• ISBN13: 9780822959182
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"