The Midnight

In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find--swirling around the poet's mother--ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Frederick Law Olmsted: a restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With shades of wit, insomnia, and terror, The Midnight becomes a kind of dialogue in which the prose and poetry sections seem to be dreaming fitfully of each other.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/2003
ISBN: 9780811215381
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.12w x 0.60d
Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 67
Library Journal 05/15/2003 pg. 94