The Island

by Michael White

Book Overview

While he was poet laureate of the United States (1990-1991), Mark Strand selected this book for publication with special funds administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, saying, "No first book in memory has so much wisdom, so much lyric conviction as Michael White's The Island. I find his poems astonishingly mature, profound, evocative."

White's poems rise from the dark interstices of memory and imagination, his brief love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556590504
• ISBN13: 9781556590504
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"