The Brink (Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition, 12)
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Winner of the 1999 Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition. Voice Poems.
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Graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers Workshop, Peter Sears has taught at Reed College and has served as Dean on Students at Bard College and as community services coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Northwest Review, The Atlantic, Seneca Review, Antioch Review, Left Bank, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and many other publications. He has been anthologized in Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars; Scribner's Poets for Students: A Scribner's Student Encyclopedia; Season of Dead Water; Voices for the Land: and other anthologies. Sears has also authored three previous books: Tour: New and Selected Poems, Secret Writing, and I'm Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem.
"So believable and human a voice--the sound of a man talking--that it comes as a surprise to find that among the affecting poems here is a sequence couched in a voice of a very old woman--also believable, very human."
--Donald Justice
The Brink (Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition, 12)
The Brink (Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition, 12),Peter Sears,Gibbs Smith Publishers,0879059249,American - General,Fiction - General,General,Poetry
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