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Pennsylvania Collection Agency (New Issues Poetry Prose)
Pennsylvania Collection Agency - New Issues Poetry Prose Author:Michael Burkard Pennsylvania Collection Agency, a new book from Michael Burkard, is comprised of poems written in 1986 but withheld from publication until now. This volume utilizes the unifying structure of a single year in the poets life as an organizing principle. Burkard has been quietly accumulating one of the most fascinating verse biographies we hav... more »e, and in this book we visit old territories in unexpectedly candid poems about alcoholism, beauty, and the poets childhood. Burkard further emblazons the arc of theme and language that is beginning to coalesce into one of the most distinguishable formal and emotional landscapes in contemporary poetry. Idiosyncratic as always, this dazzling writer is never less than entertaining, but as poem in placed over poem, like some celestial template, one begins to feel the presence of much larger truths. All-encompassing, incendiary, immediate, and with a remarkable lyric gift, Burkard leads us to a place under the starsas if for the first timeand what we find overhead is sublime.« less