For the Scribe

For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in these pages, both in short lyrics and in several lengthy sequences. The poems also evidence the mastery of technique for which Wojahn is renowned, whether he is writing in fixed forms or in free verse. For the Scribe is the most ambitious and searching collection thus far from a poet who has been a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the William Carlos Williams Book Award.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/13/2017
ISBN: 9780822964544
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/2017
Booklist 03/15/2017 pg. 15