Signs and Wonders

Signs and Wonders Poems - Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

eBook (04 Apr 2011)

Not available for sale

Instant Download - PDF (with DRM), EPub

- Read on your eReader, tablet, mobile, Apple Mac or a PC.
- Currently not compatible with Amazon Kindle.
- PDF's require Adobe Digital Editions.

Other formats & editions

New
Hardback (20 May 2011) RRP $35.33 $31.65

Publisher's Synopsis

Winner of the CNY Book Award in Poetry of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Signs is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB);
Wonders (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb.

The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world is to be read into and wondered over. The signs in this new work from the prize-winning American poet of formal brilliance and darkly comic sensibility are as stark as the one on a cage at the zoo that says ENDANGERED SPECIES, as surprising as those that announce the return of irony, and as enigmatic as a single word carved on a tombstone. Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.

Book information

ISBN: 9781421401065
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: -1g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm