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The Church of Omnivorous Light
Robert Wrigley
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Description for The Church of Omnivorous Light
Paperback. Selected Poems. 224 pages. First UK edition by leading American poet. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight: 422.
Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a nation, one that is a singular part of a singular planet, with an exuberant and frequently exasperating culture. In such a country, the glimpse of a horse under a full moon can be a defining moment, full of grace and a new, if not always comfortable, awareness. So it is with a saved lock of a lover's hair, the memory of ... Read more
Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a nation, one that is a singular part of a singular planet, with an exuberant and frequently exasperating culture. In such a country, the glimpse of a horse under a full moon can be a defining moment, full of grace and a new, if not always comfortable, awareness. So it is with a saved lock of a lover's hair, the memory of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249663
SKU
V9781852249663
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About Robert Wrigley
Robert Wrigley was born in 1951 in East St Louis, Illinois. He was drafted in 1971, but later discharged as a conscientious objector. The first in his family to graduate from college, and the first male for generations to escape work in a coal mine, Wrigley earned his MFA from the University of Montana. He has been awarded fellowships from ... Read more
Reviews for The Church of Omnivorous Light
'Wrigley ponders what it is that we have that animals lack, and what animals have that we can only long for: their perfect fit with the cosmos - Dramatic and heady, his transporting poems knit us tightly into the glistening web of life' - Booklist. 'In this new book, Wrigley has become someone else, someone who has wandered into a ... Read more