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Scars

by Peter Meinke
Scars

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ISBN13: 9780822955924
ISBN10: 082295592X



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Peter Meinke is one of the most readable poets.  The surface clarity of his lines and his aptness for metaphor make these poems accessible and mysterious.  They have real subjects - Dessert Storm and acorns, coffee and Tolstoy -  but at the same time give entry to that interior world where all feelings and moralities grow.

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“These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and when they release us we are delighted, shaken, and considerably wiser.”

--Ted Kooser

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"Peter Meinke writes, it is clear, beneath a banner of wisdom. His gift in this book is graciously to record the scars inflicted on the body and sould by family life, aging, love and music and joy, the helplessness in this violent world of one who wants 'nothing but peace' yet feels 'my hair come to attention; when the military band marches by. I wish I had written 'The Parade,' 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind' (a funny and sad sestina) and many other poems in this book. They say truth, and they say it with rue, shapeliness, a wonderful band on the keyboard of metaphor."

--Alicia Suskin Ostriker


About the Author

Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.

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martha.humphrey , October 07, 2006
I was privileged to read scars before it hit the streets. Another solid delivery of poetry by Mr. Meinke that touches our human experience straight on. Peter Meinke is a man I grew up admiring. He was the dad of my good friends in the neighborhood, a great storyteller, father, and tennis junkie, but more, he was a working artist and gave me the confidence to do the same, though for me it was the visual arts. And he was cute for a dad and bought me my first root beer float, :) Peter's poetry has the honesty of a best friend's confession and the universality of experience that few poets can achieve with the type of unassuming line the Peter delivers. In person, warm, lyrical, real and true; in writing the same. From an early age, his poems have given a lexicon of edges to me, like bouys against the shore that I have used to navigate through in my own life. Thank you Peter, Mr. Meinke.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780822955924
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/11/1996
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Series info:
Pitt Poetry (Paperback)
Language:
English
Pages:
88
Height:
.29IN
Width:
6.03IN
Thickness:
.3 in.
LCCN:
95-52319
Series:
Pitt poetry series
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1996
Series Volume:
#10
Author:
Peter Meinke
Subject:
Single Author / General
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
Single Author / American

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