Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252068034)

David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. The Antioch Review has ascribed to him a"profoundly earthbound sanity," while Publishers Weekly credits him with a "plainspoken formal virtuosity" and a "consistent, pragmatic clarity of perception." His collections have garnered Poetry's Levinson and Union League Prizes, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominations for the American Book Award and the National Book Award. For his most recent collection, Walt Whitman Bathing, Wagoner was honored with the Ohioana Book Award in the category of poetry.

Witty, eloquent, and insightful, Traveling Light offers new and familiar treasures from a master observer of both the natural and the human worlds. In a style by turns direct and intricate, Wagoner distills the essential emotions from people's encounters with each other, with nature, and with themselves. Through his compassionate but unblinking eyes, we see ourselves and the world that surrounds us more sharply delineated.


Author: David Wagoner
ISBN-10: 0252068033
ISBN-13: 9780252068034
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/1999
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/28/1999 pg. 73
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1918
Library Journal 08/01/1999 pg. 98