New and Selected Poems: 1956-1996 - P
Philip Appleman
University of Arkansas Press (1996)
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Poet
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Paperback 1557284202
English
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3551.P6A6 1996
Dewey 811/.54
Edition inscribed
Nationality American
Cover Price $22.00
No. of Pages 264
Height x Width 9.3 x 6.2  inch
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Conflict Vietnam
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incribed to Jeanne 1996


With an astonishing command of nature imagery, from sparrows to mastodons, Philip Appleman can deftly weave into a single poem an intricate pattern of ideas drawn from evolution, humanism, anthropology, religious skepticism, and everyday experience. Appealing to reason as well as to emotion and imagination, he writes poems of lyrical intensity and remarkable narrative depth. He creates characters - Eve or Darwin or a failed priest - with such wit, compassion, and subtle humor that they live on the page and surprise us with new insights into joy and sorrow, life and death. Set on the beach at Malibu, in the port of Trieste, or in a Manhattan subway, his poems evoke genuine feeling without sentimentality and transform the personal into the universal. Drawn from six previous books of poetry written over four decades, and with fourteen new poems, this collection shows the power and complexity of Appleman's wide-ranging talent.