num_pages: 240
description: “Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”―Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.
language: English
title: Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
titlecomplete: Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 82
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Poets' Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company