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The Thousand Wells: Poems

Adam Kirsch

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In 2001, Ivan R. Dee began publication of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize-winner with the appearance of Donald Petersen's Early and Late. The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form. The magazine was thus an early leader in that poetic renaissance that has come to be called the New Formalism. For 2002 The New Criterion Poetry Prize was awarded to Adam Kirsch. His first book of poems, The Thousand Wells, is now published. Combining a passionate lyricism with commanding technical skill, Mr. Kirsch offers a beguiling and memorable sequence of poems that are deeply alive to the enchantments of nature and the chastenings of history. This is a remarkable debut by a notable young poet.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
  • Publish Date: Jul 12nd, 2002
  • Pages: 80
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.64in - 5.98in - 0.50in - 0.28lb
  • EAN: 9781566634519
  • Categories: • American - General

About the Author

Adam Kirsch was born and grew up in Los Angeles, and now works as an editor in New York City. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Partisan Review, Harvard Review, the Formalist, and elsewhere. A former assistant literary editor of the New Republic, he writes regularly about poetry for that journal and for the New York Times and other magazines and newspapers.

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A monthly review edited by @rogerkimball and @jamespanero (exec ed). New subscribers: save nearly 60% on your subscription until August 31.

Our critic’s pick: “The Discarded Life: Poems,” by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen). https://t.co/hky8MSGeCW https://t.co/esE7RbKegT

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A journal of literature and discussion at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925.

William Butler Yeats was born on this day in 1865. Adam Kirsch writes in our Summer 2007 issue that “the strong rhythms, the lofty rhetoric, the prophetic point of view, all make his poems sound more like incantations than ordinary speech.” https://t.co/KUR5xL9HRD

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Peter Vertacnik
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The Nature of Things Fragile (Criterion Books, 2024) @PotomacReview @32_Poems @CortlandReview @PMlitmag @PhoebeJournal | He / his | @ForgottenGPoems

@Ttalindeyzac Reminds me of Adam Kirsch's book of poems, Emblems of the Passing World, inspired by many of Sander's photographs, including this one.

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Praise for this book

Kirsch has already written poems that will endure, and he bids fair to join the ranks of his masters.--Daniel Mark Epstein
The most exciting, the most serious, and the most courageous young poet-critic in America.--James Wood
One of the most promising young poets-critics in America.... At 26, Kirsch already has a voice distinctly his own...wonderful.-- "Los Angeles Times"
For poetry lovers everywhere.-- "The Review of Higher Education"

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