Try (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Cole Swensen


Try (Iowa Poetry Prize)
Title : Try (Iowa Poetry Prize)
Author :
Rating :
ISBN : 0877456593
ISBN-10 : 9780877456599
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 92
Publication : First published March 1, 1999
Awards : San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award (1999)

The poems in Cole Swensen's Try explore the intersection of writing with the visual arts, particularly late medieval and early Renaissance paintings. They also explore writing as a visual vehicle, both as a pattern across a field and as a catalyst for imagery.

Try (Iowa Poetry Prize) Reviews

  • S P

    "This happened to a friend of mine, a very bright man, and it really did happen this way: he met a woman at a cafe or some equally casual place, and they'd hit it off, had gone out three or four times, and had gotten rather close, some warm embraces, kissed once or twice, and were getting nearer and nearer to a physical intimacy, so one day she said, there's something I think I should tell you; I have no left hand."

    —Even

  • Janée Baugher

    Ekphrastic poems that are at once accessible/tangible and abstract/ephemeral. Take a gander at her typographical work-cool! I know no other poet who composes the way Dr. Swensen does. If you aim to write literary poems, you must read collections by this author.

  • M

    Look, their shadows flick through the water like fish
    free of their bodies

  • Anna

    Art.