Portrait of a Father by Warren, Robert Penn

Portrait of a Father (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813116556)

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Portrait of a Father by Warren, Robert Penn

Portrait of a Father

$20.00
Portrait of a Father by Warren, Robert Penn

Portrait of a Father

$20.00
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself and others of his family. The poet finds that his father too, in his long silent youth, ventured

Author: Robert Penn Warren
ISBN-10: 0813116554
ISBN-13: 9780813116556
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 05/19/1998
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.78w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/1988
By Robert Penn Warren
By Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetry Promises: Poems 1954--1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author of Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back and The Cave.

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