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From the Meadow

Selected and New Poems

Peter Everwine author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Published:18th Apr '04

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For nearly five decades, readers have been enthralled and enchanted by Peter Everwine’s calmly dazzling poems. He’s never been a writer clearly aligned with any single school or style, yet adherents of all schools and styles admire his graceful turns of phrase and intense vision. From the Meadow features selections from four previous collections, along with a group of new works. The poems, which include Everwine’s deft translations from Hebrew and interpretations from Nahuatl, vibrate with the intensity of small truths distilled to their very essences.

There is something shining and pure - a radiant clarity, a luminous stillness - at the heart of Peter Everwine's beautiful, mysterious, and necessary work. - Edward Hirsch; ""Peter Everwine's lyrics and translations - for they all seem part of a single voice - haunt me with their clear, crisp, unsentimental, heartbreaking lines.... Unassuming, hard and unswerving as fate itself."" - Paul Mariani; ""There is a profound humility in Everwine's poems, a tenderness for the least detail in the world, which his attention and care make luminous. Bone, leaf, panorama, or part of speech, Everwine works to identify in any particular how our lives - at least in the attention of the moment - might claim transcendence."" - Christopher Buckley; ""What a radiant book - a lifetime of Peter Everwine's quiet, meditative poems, and his shining translations, made (or found) his own."" - Jean Valentine

ISBN: 9780822958444

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112 pages