num_pages: 128
description: The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets.The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms are eroding, and our choices seem fewer and less attractive. Despite feelings of anger and loneliness, the narrator speaks to us in a personal, accessible, and often humorous voice.
language: English
title: The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems
titlecomplete: The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 27
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Florida Book Award
category: Poetry - Bronze
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press