The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets.

The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms are eroding, and our choices seem fewer and less attractive. Despite feelings of anger and loneliness, the narrator speaks to us in a personal, accessible, and often humorous voice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/10/2020
ISBN: 9780822959182
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.39d
Award: Florida Book Award - Bronze Medal Winner