Envelope of night
Subtitle: selected and uncollected poems, 1966-1990
By: Michael Burkard.
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cold Spring, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780976718567
Description: "Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990 is the definitive collection of Michael Burkard's early work, featuring an insightful Foreword by the author, generous selections from five out-of-print books, and "A Thief in the Lamp," a compilation of previously unpublished poems. This volume is an essential record of the achievements of a major American writer and a dazzling testament to the range of the poetic mind."--Jacket.
Notes: Selections from five earlier books (In a white light, Ruby for grief, The fires they kept, Fictions from the self, and None, river) and A thief in the lamp, a book-length section of previously unpublished poems.