The Cuckoo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300102727)

The winner of the 2003 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Gl?k. It is Gl?k's first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and astonishing power. Taking his inspiration from both American and Chinese culture, Streckfus seems an impossible combination of John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. In her Foreword, Gl?k praises Streckfus's art for its "nonsense and mystery," its "mesmerizing beauty" and "luminous high-mindedness."

Author: Peter Streckfus
ISBN-10: 0300102720
ISBN-13: 9780300102727
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2004
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.52w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 02/23/2004 pg. 68
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2004