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On a Wing of the Sun
Three volumes of poetry
Jim Barnes
Paper978-0-252-07015-0
$19.95
| Pub Date: | |
| Pages: | 264 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
Winner of the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award (judged by Philip Levine), and the Oklahoma Book Award, Jim Barnes has been hailed as "a masterful poet, a most worthy voice for his generation" (Samuel Maio) and "one of the finest poets now writing in the United States" (David Ray). This generous volume brings together for the first time three acclaimed collections of Barnes's poetry: The American Book of the Dead, A Season of Loss, and La Plata Cantata.
"Throughout his writing Barnes shows poise and a feeling for drama. His language is compelling and allusive, his tone often mysterious. But he never deals in obscurities. Instead, he has consciously developed a flexible, almost prosy style that is tightened into poetry by the sheer force of his syntax. Above all, Barnes is a capable explorer of self and society . . . a tough, discriminating voice."--G. E. Murray, Chicago Sun-Times
"Whatever the setting--a bus depot in Arizona, a lonely highway in Nevada or Wyoming, a tavern in Oregon or a small town in Missouri--Barnes's Midwestern and Western America is unique and authentic."--Charles Guenther, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"It is a deep new pleasure to come on a poet with the imaginative boldness of Jim Barnes."--James Dickey
Jim Barnes is an internationally recognized poet and translator. He is the author of many books of poetry, including The Sawdust War, Paris, and Visiting Picasso, as well as an autobiography, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions, which won the American Book Award. He is the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma for 2009-2010.
Awards:
Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, 2002. Poet Laureate of Oklahoma for 2009-2010.
Subjects:
Poetry
