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Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1966-1990
by Michael Burkard
Over the course of his distinguished career, Michael Burkard has drawn praise from poets as diverse as John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Jean Valentine, James Tate, Tomas Tranströmer, and Timothy Liu for a poetry that "returns us to a primary strangeness." This selection offers Burkard aficionados and those new to his work an opportunity to encounter what Ashbery has praised as Burkard's "urgent messages from a distant galaxy." According to poet-critic Ethan Paquin, Burkard's poems "break from reality and American lyrical status quo to offer timeless, elegant revelations."
Envelope of Night features an insightful foreword by the author, generous selections from five early books (the out-of-print collections In a White Light, Ruby for Grief, The Fires They Kept, Fictions from the Self and None, River) and "A Thief in the Lamp," a compelling, book-length section of previously unpublished poems that provides crucial insight into the trajectory of the development of Burkard's work. This definitive volume is an essential record of the achievements of a major American writer and a dazzling litmus of the range of the poetic mind.
ISBN 097671851
382 pages
$19.95
Praise for Michael Burkard:
"Only a handful of poets live on the earth at any given time, and I believe Michael Burkard to be one of them. What a joy-and how humbling-to be confronted by an artist who has utterly abandoned himself to beauty and truth."
—Denis Johnson
About Michael Burkard
Michael Burkard is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
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