Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry As soon as I had read the book, I wanted immediately to read it again, for its pebble that is also a planet, for its one-celled organism that, to regenerate the world, ?sings the world's last song.? ?Paul Hoover Teicher is one of our new poets.?Richard Howard Craig Morgan Teicher's poems have appeared in many publications, including the Yale Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, Pleiades, and New England Review.
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"This first book ...has the plainspokenness and unguarded candor about writing and ambition more often found in a later book by an established poet - think Robert Creeley....Teicher puts his faith in the hypothetical 'as if,' as if being in love with poe
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"Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems is a beautiful and original work that appears to be, on first impression, a light-hearted and amusingly self-conscious account of daily life. Brenda (the author's then fiancée, now wife) is indeed in the room
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"[M]any poems engage the imagination and do what great poetry should: remind us that our mundane lives, and the mere fact of language, are utterly strange and magical."
- Marit MacArthur, The Bloomsbury Review
Synopsis
Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
About the Author
Craig Morgan Teicher's poems have appeared in many publications, including the Yale Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, Pleiades, and New England Review. His prose and reviews have also appeared widely. He earned an MFA at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.