Soul Data (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) by Mark Svenvold - 1998-03-01

University of North Texas Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Univ of North Texas Pr, 1998. Paperback. New. 59 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. "Soul Data is rarely compounded--of wit and music, surface elegance and intellectual depth, quirk and quandary. Its sensual intelligence is on high alert, and the sheer unsheerness of its language--all its densities and textures--is a linguiphiliacal delight. Unmistakeably American (the poetry's occasions and its cadences alike serve for signature) it has the jinx-meister's humors about it. There's a dark streak, too, an eye for the natural indifferences that border the spotlit human heats. A fine rhetorical savvy, in a mind inclined to the chillier depths: among poetic gifts these days it's an uncommon conjunction, a gift of mysteries, like the sight (across a night pond's surface) of bright-blue shooting star: one hopes the other humans get to see it."--Heather McHugh V [Linoleum] South of Spokane Street, a gear works turns its teeth--shadows in a cavern, through the cycles of a drop-forge piston, heft themselves and recoil in… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.