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The God of This World to His Prophet. Poems.
Bill Coyle
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Description for The God of This World to His Prophet. Poems.
Hardback. The sixth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize. Bill Coyle's first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered trappings of an often hard-bitten and desolate world and the larger, more elusive questions of belief. Series: New Criterion Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 245.
The sixth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Bill Coyle's The God of This World to His Prophet. Mr. Coyle's first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered trappings of an often hard-bitten and desolate world and the larger, more elusive questions of belief. Shifting easily through registers of sober reflection, gentle satire, and even outright humor, his poems encompass landscape and dramatic situation with equal skill. Decoding the import in a stand of leafless trees or recounting the melancholy ruminations of a solitary figure in winter, Mr. Coyle finds "imaginings / projected on ... Read more
The sixth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Bill Coyle's The God of This World to His Prophet. Mr. Coyle's first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered trappings of an often hard-bitten and desolate world and the larger, more elusive questions of belief. Shifting easily through registers of sober reflection, gentle satire, and even outright humor, his poems encompass landscape and dramatic situation with equal skill. Decoding the import in a stand of leafless trees or recounting the melancholy ruminations of a solitary figure in winter, Mr. Coyle finds "imaginings / projected on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
New Criterion Series
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637107
SKU
V9781566637107
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About Bill Coyle
Bill Coyle's poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Hudson Review, The New Criterion, the New Republic, and Poetry. He is a translator from the Swedish, and his versions of the poet Håkan Sandell have appeared in PN Review and Ars Interpres and are forthcoming in the anthology The Other Side of Landscape. Mr. Coyle teaches in ... Read more
Reviews for The God of This World to His Prophet. Poems.
Reading 'Aubade,' the tiny poem [concluding] Coyle's…collection is like witnessing a hole-in-one. It's a single, flawless stroke.
Eric McHenry
The New York Times
Coyle is absolutely on top of his game [and] easily one of the best poets of his generation.
David Mason
The Hudson Review
[Coyle] writes with a clear flow of lively ... Read more
Eric McHenry
The New York Times
Coyle is absolutely on top of his game [and] easily one of the best poets of his generation.
David Mason
The Hudson Review
[Coyle] writes with a clear flow of lively ... Read more