Screeds
STEPHEN WIEST, born the day after Pearl Harbor, has worked as a janitor, bartender, Fuller Brush salesman, printer, and gardener for people who like flowers but not dirt. In the late sixties, he was poet-in-residence at The Johns Hopkins University's famed Writing Seminars, under Elliott Coleman. He lives in Rock Hall, Maryland, an old waterman's town on the Chesapeake Bay. Although he has written five books of poetry and four novels, this final version of Screeds is his first publication in twenty-six years, and the first title in the prestigious Fortnightly Review's series of "Odd Volumes."
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Screeds
STEPHEN WIEST, born the day after Pearl Harbor, has worked as a janitor, bartender, Fuller Brush salesman, printer, and gardener for people who like flowers but not dirt. In the late sixties, he was poet-in-residence at The Johns Hopkins University's famed Writing Seminars, under Elliott Coleman. He lives in Rock Hall, Maryland, an old waterman's town on the Chesapeake Bay. Although he has written five books of poetry and four novels, this final version of Screeds is his first publication in twenty-six years, and the first title in the prestigious Fortnightly Review's series of "Odd Volumes."
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Screeds

Screeds

by Stephen Wiest
Screeds

Screeds

by Stephen Wiest

Overview

STEPHEN WIEST, born the day after Pearl Harbor, has worked as a janitor, bartender, Fuller Brush salesman, printer, and gardener for people who like flowers but not dirt. In the late sixties, he was poet-in-residence at The Johns Hopkins University's famed Writing Seminars, under Elliott Coleman. He lives in Rock Hall, Maryland, an old waterman's town on the Chesapeake Bay. Although he has written five books of poetry and four novels, this final version of Screeds is his first publication in twenty-six years, and the first title in the prestigious Fortnightly Review's series of "Odd Volumes."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780615851587
Publisher: Odd Volumes
Publication date: 07/15/2013
Series: Odd Volumes
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Screeds is an extended sequence which tracks a mediated life-passage, a narrative of failed

and surviving love which is elegantly enmeshed in philosophical discoveries, abstract history

and something called "America", a kind of demanding governess who is very difficult to put

up with. The poems are almost placeless, moving directly from experience into a poetical

over-language, in a central tradition on which he has a firm grip. The techniques are those of

someone who knows exactly what he wants from modern poetry, as a vehicle for dense self-
questioning thought, but also linguistic escapades and meditative spaces some of which are a

model of assurance and calm in the writing, ever prepared to transgress rational expectation:

It is two o'clock in the city

sirens are silent

windows open the first time in months

a mockingbird tests the air after rain

(full moon, high clouds)

shakes out his rusty songbook

on the edge of spring.

Thirty-seven songs in the heavy air.

-- Peter Riley
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