Ocean

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ocean
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Neil Azevedo
Foreword by Richard Howard
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:80
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry
Poetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780802141965
ClassificationsDewey:811.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date 24 February 2005
Publication Country United States

Description

Neil Azevedo has published poems in The Paris Review, The New Criterion, Prairie Schooner, and Image. His first collection, Ocean, introduces a shadowy world populated with dogs and snakes, suicide and children, sickness and satire, Satan and Christ, yet one doesn't feel soggy with introspection. Instead, wisdom emerges from these often personal and well-articulated lyrics; the reader is moved by the juxtaposition of savagery of subject and delicacy of touch. The verbal and often gothic brilliance of the language is stunning. It's not often that a young poet successfully embraces meter, finding a refined, velvet-toned style, and creates such a stellar debut.