Waiting for the Alchemist: Poems

by Mark Perlberg

Book Overview

Direct and compassionate, the poems in Mark Perlberg's collection tell us things we need to know -- about art, history, nature, love, and life. Wholly without pretension, these poems make us feel that we have discovered the truth. The poet accomplishes this partly by his delicate touch with rhyme and assonance, partly by making himself seem almost an accidental instrument of the poem, someone who just happens to be conveying it. A reader cannot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080713399X
• ISBN13: 9780807133996
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.6"