Tryst

by Angie Estes

Overview

Angie Estes' Tryst was named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The citation called it "a collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780932440358
Publisher:	Oberlin College Press
Publication date:	04/15/2009
Series:	FIELD Poetry Series , #24
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

ANGIE ESTES is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Tryst (Oberlin College Press, 2009), named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the

Table of Contents

You Were About • Transcript • Love Letters • Takeoff • Sommersonnenwende • Verba Volant, • You Can Tell • Via Sacra • Script • Here Lightning Has Been • Gloss • Against Bees • Wrap in Parchment and Also Pink Paper • Heart • Bourrée • Alleluya • Saying • Olé • Last Words • Curio • The House in Good Taste • Salles des Départs • First Life of St. Francis • Nevers • So Near Yet So Far • Take Cover • Tryst • Verre Églomisé • It Is Virtually Without Thickness and Has Almost

What People are Saying About This

Linda Gregerson

"Her timing and her ever-inhibited instinct for poetic shape are the triumphs of a first-rate musical intelligence. Angie Estes is Fred Astaire and Ginger too: backwards in high heels, forward on rollerskates, never have classy and sexy been better matched."

Editorial Reviews

Gleeful and gorgeous, delighted by puns and other wordplay (including words from French, Latin and Italian), Estes's fast-paced free verse, rich with internal rhyme, takes rightful pride in the beauties it flaunts and explains.
—The New York Times

Stephen Burt