Night School

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Night School by Carl Dennis, Penguin Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Carl Dennis ISBN: 9780525504337
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Carl Dennis
ISBN: 9780525504337
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize

The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection, Night School, are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize

The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection, Night School, are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging.

More books from Penguin Publishing Group

Cover of the book If Jack's in Love by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Insane City by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Come Along with Me by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Art as Experience by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Longarm 335 by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Winding Stair by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book White Knight by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Calm the Crying by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book How to Hit a Curveball by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Dragon Bound by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book A Murderous Yarn by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book White Shadow by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book Black Howl by Carl Dennis
Cover of the book The Ghosts of Hero Street by Carl Dennis
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy