If Anything, Poems by Len Krisak
Len
Krisak's If Anything is the strongest collection yet from a poet
whose graceful, urbane poems have earned him a reputation as a leading
formalist. Ranging from personal lyrics to expert renderings of Horace,
Krisak's formal and stylistic breadth are seldom matched in contemporary
poetry.
Len Krisak won the Richard Wilbur Prize for his first collection, Even
As We Speak (University of Evansville Press, 2000). He is the recipient
of numerous other awards, including the Robert Frost Prize for 2000 and
the Robert Penn Warren Award for 1998. His work has appeared in a number
of anthologies, including the Oxford University Press volume Gods
and Mortals: Poems on Classical Mythology and in such journals as
Commonweal, Agenda, the Formalist, Pivot, Rattapallax, the Tennessee
Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, and The Hudson Review.
Praise
for Len Krisak's Work
"If there are still people who assume that metrical verse can't deal with present-day matter, let them read [Krisak] and stand corrected."--X.J. Kennedy
"Len Krisak demonstrates...that great tradition is indeed still speaking to us in the twenty-first century. A well-made poem, he reminds us, is an emblem of courage."--Mary Jo Salter
"These
are poems that invite the reader again and again, through every avenue
available to poetry, into a mind worth visiting and revisiting."
--Rhina P. Espaillat
ISBN 1932339078, 104 pages, $16.00
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