Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.A critically acclaimed literary treasure, Practical Gods is a captivatingpoetrycollectionthat transcends conventional perspectives.
Many of the poems inthis eighth collection by Carl Dennis involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with some ultimate reality, these clear, precise, sensitive poems help us to pay homage to the everyday household gods that are easy to ignore, the gods that sustain life and make it rewarding.
Carl Dennis is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Practical Gods, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2001. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2000 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Award for his contribution to American poetry by Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association. He is a part-time faculty member of Warren Wilson College's MFA program in creative writing and teaches in the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141002309 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141002301 |
| Title | Practical Gods |
| Author | Carl Dennis |
| Series | Penguin Poets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2001-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. |
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