Details

Subject(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

Iowa poetry prize [More in this series]

Summary note

Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana's poems attend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat. Shot full of accidental attachments and reluctant transience, Natural Selections produces from vibrant contradiction potent song. In poems both lyric and expansive, Natural Selections finds in the simplicity and strangeness of middle America a complex metaphysics of place and an uncanny perspective reminiscent of the landscapes of Grant Wood. Birds and beasts, frequent storms, co.

Notes

Poems.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Awards

Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

ISBN

• 9781609380922 (electronic bk.)
• 1609380924 (electronic bk.)

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