By Karl Kirchwey

ISBN-10: 0399157271

ISBN-13: 9780399157271

"Kirchwey stocks the classicist's imaginative and prescient of poetry as a dwelling culture that extends from antiquity to the current . . . and his poems during this factor are approximately violent love and transcendent longing, the nice romantic themes."
-Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar

"One of the superior poets of his generation."
-John Hollander

"The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and but every now and then they resonate with the inner most and so much stirring of feelings."
-Anthony Hecht

Mount Lebanon is a novel paintings from a mature expertise. Loosely established round an extinct Shaker group in big apple country and the encircling panorama, the publication expands to incorporate Kirchwey's tales of getting older, parenthood, romantic love, or even the family pleasures and dramas hidden inside a backyard. every one poem is fantastically crafted; taken jointly, they make up a robust quantity. this can be a witty, fashionable, and relocating assortment from a tremendous American poet.

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