Winter Light: Poems

by Alfred Nicol

Book Overview

Winter Light by Alfred Nicol, recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable new collection of poems by a sure and steady hand in an astonishing variety of forms and voices. As Rhina... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930982584
• ISBN13: 9780930982584
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Evansville Press
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

it's a fair collection

With poems like "Willing the Sun Across the Sky," "A Drink at The Mirage," and "Drink & Dial" it's no wonder Rhina Espaillat (a phenomenal poet herself) says of Nicol "he uses language with a grace so effortless that it creates the illusion of having arranged itself." `Nuff said.

Winter Light, by Alfred Nicol

Billy Collins said, "Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is pointing straight at you." Alfred Nicol's poetry is exactly that kind of light. It is intensely personal, yet it reveals the numinous--the hints of something other, and somewhere else--that is all around us. I highly recommend this remarkable book.