The Novice Insomniac [Paperback]

Emily Warn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1996

"This is a new voice we will all be blessed for hearing."--Susan Griffin

Editorial Reviews

Review

After Reading The Book Of Splendor
After Starting A Forest Fire
Axis Mundi
Before Ordering The Day
Beyond
Bravura
California Poppy
Chrysanthemums
Community Hall Courtship, Vashon Island, 1945
Detained By Her Swagger I Miss A Deadline With Myself
Eighteen
Encyclopedia
Evening Prayer
Felon
Flicker
The Flowering Branches
Fog
Fort Tilton-indian Wars 1856
The Genesis Of Insomnia
Her Boutique
Highway Suite
Icarus
In California
Insomniac Rock
The Insomniac Ward
Johnson's Orchards
Kaddish
Koan
La Push Ocean Park
Labor Day
Letter To Father From Beaumont Farm
Litany
Lost
The Map Of Habits
Maple Nebula
Moving
The New Deal
New World Parrot
The New Year
The Novice Insomniac
Office Talk
Old Barn
On The Insomniac's Watch
Place Of The Salmon Weir
Practice
Procession
The Rabbi Stumbles
Raking The Gravel
Regret
Rocky Mountain Novice
Rose
Rusted Hinge Bed And Breakfast
Savings
Setting Celestial Signs On Terrestrial Beings
Slow Awakening
Solitary Date Orchard
Sounding The Good Name
Spring Visit
Starvation Hill
Stump House
Topos
Tower Of Babel
Tracery
Trouble
Tzaddik
While The Secretaries Compose The Engineers' Torah
Wind
With Samson's Strength In Mind
The Word Between The World And God
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Emily Warn is the editor for the Poetry Foundation website, which won a 2007 "Best of the Web" award. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is the author of two books of poems. She lives in Chicago and Seattle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 125 pages
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (July 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556591128
• ISBN-13: 978-1556591129
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,121,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Emily Warn is a poet, essayist, and teacher who most recently served as founding editor of poetryfoundation.org, the award-winning online poetry resource of the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine. Her latest book SHADOW ARCHITECT is her spiritual journey through the Hebrew Alef-Beit. She is the author of four other collections of poetry: THE LEAF PATH, THE NOVICE INSOMNIAC, HIGHWAY SUITE, and THE BOOK OF ESTHER.

Her essays and poems appear widely, including in Tikkun, Poetry, Poetry Daily, BookForum, National Book Critics' Circle, Blackbird, Parabola, The Seattle Times, and The Writers' Almanac. You can read her blog and find out about her workshops at www.emilywarn.com. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and associate professor of creative writing at Lynchburg, she currently divides her time between Twisp and Seattle, Washington.

For National Poetry Month, she'll be blogging at www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet