It Is If I Speak by Wenderoth, Joe
It Is If I Speak by Wenderoth, Joe

It Is If I Speak

New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume...
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Author: Joe Wenderoth
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It Is If I Speak by Wenderoth, Joe

It Is If I Speak

$44.03
It Is If I Speak by Wenderoth, Joe

It Is If I Speak

$44.03
Author: Joe Wenderoth
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.

In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies "It is if I speak that I will be destroyed."

Wenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, "Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses." His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, "owing is all that really happens," and lives are shaped by the refusal to "sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle."

Author: Joe Wenderoth
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/17/2000
Pages: 83
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780819563903


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2000 pg. 108
Library Journal 04/15/2000 pg. 96

About the Author
JOE WENDEROTH, whose new work is published regularly in Triquarterly, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, and other journals, has captured the front cover of American Poetry Review, and continues to gather a following. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program, he is currently in the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. Author of Disfortune (Wesleyan, 1995) and a chapbook The Endearment (1999), excerpts of his Letters to Wendy's are accessible on-line at Nerve.com


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