The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 - Paperback

by James McMichael (Author)

The World at Large brings together the best of James McMichael's poetry and includes works that appear for the first time in this volume. With the publication of the new poems, McMichael surpasses even the formally daring and psychologically penetrating poetry that has characterized his work thus far.

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Readers may now enjoy the quiet originality of James McMichael's metric in his poetry; his astonishing appetite for the world of fact--economic history, architecture, social planning--which most poets ignore; and his acuteness about the simple soul's anxiety at always having to face the world.

Author Biography

James McMichael is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the recipient of a Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award.