"From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, Hammer Is the Prayer bears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in 'Five Houses Down' with his 'wonder-cluttered porch' and 'the eyesore opulence / of his five partial cars,' or the tragicomic ...
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"From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, Hammer Is the Prayer bears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in 'Five Houses Down' with his 'wonder-cluttered porch' and 'the eyesore opulence / of his five partial cars,' or the tragicomic character in 'Being Serious' who suffers 'the world's idiocy / like a saint its pains.' [This book] brings together three decades of Wiman's acclaimed poetry. Selected by the author, these poems reveal the singular music and metaphysical urgency that have attracted so many readers to his work"--Publisher marketin
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