Icehouse Lights

Yale Series of Younger Poets

by David Wojahn

Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition
 
“David Wojahn’s poems concern themselves with emotive leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality. Yet as poems, they are far from usual. They help us welcome inside, again and again, the most personal of feelings.”—Richard Hugo, poet and judge of the competition

Genres: Poetry

84 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1982

Reviews

[JJ! · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hugo writes in the foreword that this is a book about distance and restraint, but it is not so much about distance but of TIME, and it way that it weaves through time was interesting, sometimes so beautifully successful that it leaves me breathless and at other times failing so spectacularly that it makes me not want to read the poem any further because it is just too confusing. But wow, sometimes the turns of phrases in this collection makes me go WOW, like in Patagonia Gorge when the speaker compares the yolk of the miscarriage to the eye of the crane opening and closing

[Mel]

sometimes a fun read, other times painful. some great poems that linger on death and loss.