Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley

Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley

Described by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995), "To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift." Reign of Snakes takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, "where the dark blows a kiss to night.". . . a frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil. --from "Reign of Snakes"

In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; Reign of Snakes, winner of the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Lives of the Animals, winner of the 2004 Poet's Prize; and, most recently, Beautiful Country are among Robert Wrigley's poetry books. He teaches at the University of Idaho and lives near Moscow, Idaho, with his wife, writer Kim Barnes.

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ISBN 13	9780140589191
ISBN 10	0140589198
Title	Reign of Snakes
Author	Robert Wrigley
Series	Penguin Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1999-06-01
Number of pages	112
Prizes	Winner of Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
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