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by: Stephen R. Pastore, Gregory Corso
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780979854750
ISBN: 097985475X
Label: Harvard Press
Manufacturer: Harvard Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: December 14, 2007
Publisher: Harvard Press
Sales Rank: 5152135
Studio: Harvard Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Entrant for the Pulitzer Prize in Letters, 2009, Best New American Poet, 2007: Pastore owes all he has, and has ever had, to a saving engagement with his art. What I particularly admire is the gamble he takes, and wins, with those classic stylized poems. In less accomplished hands they might have been distractingly archaic, but here, defused by the beautifully plain and heartfelt thanks for everything into which they flow, they connect back to the great tradition from which Pastore has drawn strength not just artistically but personally, one feels throughout one of the more impressively and, I might say, spectacularly, composed first poetry collections in contemporary American poetry.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Don't judge this book by its cover.
I have a very serious bone to pick with this book's packaging, which I found deceitful and unethical. Publishers take note: package your products honestly, or you'll risk souring readers and reviewers' judgments as much as mine was soured here.
Let me backtrack a bit. I approached Brink of the World with much enthusiasm, noting it had been published by Harvard Press; the copy I received bore a silver sunburst sticker naming Stephen R. Pastore Poetry Review's Best New American Poet of ... Read More
Rating:  - Imaginative and profound
I purchased this book because I adored Pastore's ALONE IN EDEN (which I considerate a modern masterpiece). I'm not crazy about the author's cousin G. Corso, but I've developed an interest in him because of Pastore--who I think is far better, if not more famous. This is a book that anyone who loves good poetry should have. It's broad and simply profound in so many ways.
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