Winner of the 1998 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
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"From White’s minutely observed and lyrically rendered landscapes—where vine-snarl defines the upper world and algal afterglow the lower—to his reenvisioning of the Death of Turnus from the Aeneid, Palma Cathedral traces the journey of the imagination in the face of overwhelming loss." -- Lynne McMahon, author of Devolution of the Nude
"There is a Wordsworthian grandeur about Michael White’s poems, a rhetorical and emotional fullness that is breathtaking. His attention to the shifting complexity of the natural world, his precise diction, his finely tuned cadences carry with them an unusual power, an immense gravity. Reading him, one feels the irresistible pull of belief in the retrievals of poetry, in the drift of language into experiences, and in the imagination as the central and most persuasive means by which we say Yes to the world." --Mark Strand, former Poet Laureate of the United States
"There is a Wordsworthian grandeur about Michael White’s poems, a rhetorical and emotional fullness that is breathtaking. His attention to the shifting complexity of the natural world, his precise diction, his finely tuned cadences carry with them an unusual power, an immense gravity. Reading him, one feels the irresistible pull of belief in the retrievals of poetry, in the drift of language into experiences, and in the imagination as the central and most persuasive means by which we say Yes to the world." --Mark Strand, former Poet Laureate of the United States
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Michael White was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Utah. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, including the New Republic, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares. His first collection of poetry, The Island, appeared in 1992, and he has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, White teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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A Review of Palma Cathedral,
By Fred Dings (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Palma Cathedral: Poems (The Colorado Prize) (Paperback)
This book is a carefully crafted, beautiful book of poems, a kind of secular cathedral, a refuge, a vision into which readers may enter. "Camille Monet Sur Son Lit De Mort" ("Camille Monet on her deathbed") is one of the most powerful elegies written in decades of American poetry, and the title poem, "Palma Cathedral," is a breathtaking ten-section poem constructing a vision out of what is lost, leaving the reader restored, envisioning. This is one of the best books to appear in years, never solipsistic or confessional or strained or merely "learned."
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