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Delicate
Bait
by Roger Mitchell
Winner of the 2002
Akron Poetry Prize
96 pp., 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-931968-06-5; $25.95
SALE: $10.38
Paper
978-1-931968-07-2; $14.95
SALE: $5.98
Akron Series in Poetry
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poems from Delicate Bait-
Other books by Roger
Mitchell
- Half/Mask
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| In Delicate Bait,
Roger Mitchell explores the small histories of the self in the larger
world, intent on giving everything its just place and name. The poems
roam over field and seashore and city, “inventing a world so
similar to the world itself / it becomes the world.” Whether
musing on the past or searching for “something even memory
can’t reach,” Mitchell faces up to “the
wobble of
most things human,” with a combination of stoicism and wonder
and
a language as supple as the spoken word.
"We want a
book—be it a work of fiction or poetry—to remind us
how
varied and complex our experience of the world can be at times. And yet
when we encounter such a book, we realize how rarely we come across one
that fits that description and how astonishing it is when we do. Roger
Mitchell’s Delicate Bait is such a book.
Not many poets
now writing have as wide a range as he does, both in terms of subject
matter and form. His poems are rich in detail, masterly in execution,
and always a good read. He is savvy about the way we Americans live and
tries to make sense of our lives in this moment in history."
-Charles Simic
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Roger
Mitchell is the author
of seven previous works of poetry and a work of non-fiction. His work
has received several awards plus two fellowships each from the Indiana
Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has
appeared in more than thirty anthologies. He taught for many years in
the English department at Indiana University-Bloomington.
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