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Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems

John Kinsella

"One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light."--Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Jul 17th, 2005
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.60in - 0.70in - 0.56lb
  • EAN: 9780393327052
  • Categories: Australian & OceanianSubjects & Themes - Animals & NatureSubjects & Themes - Places

About the Author

Bloom, Harold: - The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Harold Bloom (b. 1930) has been hailed as "one of our greatest living literary critics" (Los Angeles Times).
Kinsella, John: - John Kinsella is the author of more than fifty books. He is a fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and emeritus professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Bloom, Harold: - The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Harold Bloom (b. 1930) has been hailed as "one of our greatest living literary critics" (Los Angeles Times).

Praise for this book

"He has improvised an Australian epic lyric by lyric, book by book . . . moving forward unaggressively yet momentously, like a geological process."