Above the Land

by Julie Agoos

The willing volume in the 1986 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Above the Land by Julie Agoos...

94 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1987

About the author

Born in Boston in 1956, Julie Agoos is the author of four collections of poetry: Above the Land, winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize (selected by James Merrill); Calendar Year; Property, recipient of the Brooklyn College Creative Achievement Award, and Echo System. She taught for eight years in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and is Professor of English and coordinator of the MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College/CUNY. She lives in Nyack, New York.

Reviews

[Patty Gone · Rating 2 out of 5]

I returned this to the library without finishing it. Julie will be one of my teachers in a few months, and I hope that she'll have plenty of knowledge to impart, but the book continually left me wanting more concrete images, more play, more something. I read about fifteen of the poems, and can recall the overarching travel motif, but no specifics, and even though I had a somewhat similar travel experience, I never fully engaged with this book.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 A275a 1987