For the Scribe

by David Wojahn

For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in these pages, both in short lyrics and in several lengthy sequences. The poems also evidence the mastery of technique for which Wojahn is renowned, whether he is writing in fixed forms or in free verse. For the Scribe is the most ambitious and searching collection thus far from a poet who has been a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the William Carlos Williams Book Award.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 13, 2017

Reviews

[Francescajemm · Rating 4 out of 5]

The technical proficiency alone is reason enough to reas this collection. Factor in the imagination, the language, and the disparate material, and it’s impossible not to marvel at every page!

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

he has the touch--