num_pages: 80
description: Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2000.The Perseids is a book which insists that visual contemplation of the world is an act of the soul. These poems render the rich biological detail of landscape with passion and exactitude and describe the mind's dazzling revelations during moments of shifting perspective and scale.
language: English
title: The Perseids
titlecomplete: The Perseids
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 6
series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
publisher: University of North Texas Press