This Much I Can Tell You - David Rigsbee

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Résumé :
For decades now, David Rigsbee has crafted poems of a bracing lyrical intensity that is both refined and tough-minded. They celebrate the blessings and consolations of a cultured life, one that can honor Auden and Roy Orbison, Faust, and one-hit Doo Sop groups. These elegant and lovingly constructed poems deserve to be read and-- more importantly-- reread. -- David Wojahn...

Sommaire:
David Rigsbee is the author of NOT ALONE IN MY DANCING: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS (2015), SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (2012) and THE PILOT HOUSE (2011), from Black Lawrence Press, and The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems (NewSouth Books, 2010). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Literature and fellowships from The Djerassi Foundation, The Virginia Commission on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the author of critical studies of Carolyn Kizer and Joseph Brodsky and has coedited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry. He is contributing editor of The Cortland Review and lives in Hudson, New York....