Radiance, Joe Osterhaus's second collection of verse, is a startlingly unique volume of poems. Graceful and formal, lyric and meditative, Osterhaus's poems employ the rigors of traditional English-language poetic form and, in doing so, display an extraordinary sophistication, reveal the beauty of his mastery and capture the essence of our human integrity. These poems are imaginative in their treatment of their subjects, which are often common and mundane, and thereby reveal, illuminate and surprise us into knowing something new (or something we already knew) about our American lives. A poet's poet, Osterhaus's Radiance is a superb addition to the American canon.
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"Few poets now writing truly give us the internal "feel" of public events, and Joe Osterhaus is foremost among them." -- Tom Sleigh
"This is a most impressive book." -- John Hollander
"This is a most impressive book." -- John Hollander
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Joe Osterhaus received a B.A. from Pomona College and masters degrees from The University of Chicago and Boston University. He has taught at Boston University, Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he works for an IT services provider. His poems and poetry reviews have appeared in such journals as AGNI, The Antioch Review, BOMB, Bostonia, The Boston Review, The Formalist, Harvard Review, The Journal, The Nebraska Review, Paris Review, Slate, and Triquarterly. He's also coauthored an article published in the journal Information Systems Management. Graywolf Press published his first poetry collection, The Domed Road, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series: 1. His poems also appear in The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology and American Poetry: The Next Generation.
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An unusually insightful and vivid compendium of verse,
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This review is from: Radiance: Poems (Paperback)
Radiance is a collection of free-verse poetry by Joe Osterhaus which evokes impressions time, as well as involving all five senses and elicits fond memories in a deftly worded search for moving and treasured experience. Radiance is commended for being an unusually insightful and vivid compendium of verse. "Thus I can speak to you, now that your voice/has fallen from the government's steel case/and asks that I compare old coins with leaves: a coin, if one dent mars its image, grieves."
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