The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected, 1979-1991

by Allen Grossman

Overview

In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. The Ether Dome is his seventh book of poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811211772
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	10/17/1991
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.

Editorial Reviews

"The Ether Dome is the most complete collection available of the work of one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets. Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet, and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity."

Harold Bloom