Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803248571)

For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter's poetry is endlessly new. Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool. Here, too, are thirty new poems in fixed form that illustrate Carter's continued quest for a poetry of "universal interest." Taken together, these selections are, truly, poetry in the American grain.


Author: Jared Carter
ISBN-10: 0803248571
ISBN-13: 9780803248571
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.11h x 5.98w x 0.51d