Study for necessity
Subtitle: poems
By: by JoEllen Kwiatek
Series: Iowa poetry prize
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9781609383244; 9781609383251
Subjects: POETRY / American / General
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Study for Necessity is the 2014 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Judge Emily Wilson: Kwiatek's poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists' worlds they refer to: those of Casper David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Odilon Redon. Each is a "token of strangeness" built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying, what the poet calls the mind's "lonesome flourish""--