Spare Change: Poetry (National Poetry Book Series Award, 1997) [Paperback]

Kevin Pilkington (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 105 pages
• Publisher: La Jolla Poets Pr; 1st edition (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931721148
• ISBN-13: 978-0931721144
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,719,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches a workshop in the graduate department at Manhattanville College. He is the author of six collections: his collection Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner and his chapbook won the Ledge Poetry Prize. His collection entitled Ready to Eat the Sky was published by River City Publishing as part of their new poetry series and was a finalist for an Independent Publishers Books Award. A collection entitled In the Eyes of a Dog will be published in September 2009 by New York Quarterly Books. Another collection entitled The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree will appear in 2011 from Black Lawrence Press. His poetry has appeared in many anthologies including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England. Over the years, he has been nominated for four Pushcarts and has appeared in Verse Daily. His poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including: Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden's Ferry, Columbia, Greensboro Review, North American Review, Gulf Coast, Valparaiso Review.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful collection of imaginative poetry., May 15, 1998

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This review is from: Spare Change: Poetry (National Poetry Book Series Award, 1997) (Paperback)

A strong, urban voice emerges from this first collection by Kevin Pilkington. I loved his original way of using nouns as desciptions, such as "After we tour the house/and talk logs, we hike up/the hill's back, spot tracks/that look dog, but we know/are deer..." I throughly enjoyed his unique way of getting right to the heart of each moment in the poem. This is the best collection I have read in years. A must read!