What Things Are Made of

by Charles Harper Webb

Charles Harper Webb is celebrated for his use of humor; yet even his funniest poems rise, as the best comedy must, out of deep human drives, sorrows, and needs. Powerful immersions in what it means to be human, these poems explore the spectrum of emotions from love to hate, tenderness to brutality. They can be withering and vulnerable in the same breath. Models of clarity and vividness, they are mysterious when they need to be, ranging from lyric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822962292
• ISBN13: 9780822962298
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"