About the Size of It
About the Size of It

About the Size of It

POETRY

160 Pages, 6.1 x 9.2

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $20.50)

Publication Date: October 2006

ISBN 9780856463914

Price: $16.95
 
 

Overview

Tom Disch's first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious, ribald, uncompromising and honest. Too idiosyncratic and various a poet to belong to any poetic grouping, he is simply, in the late Donald Davie's phrase, `consistently entertaining and intelligent'.Tom Disch was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1940. He moved to New York, where he still lives, in 1957. A critically acclaimed and award-winning science fiction author (writing as Thomas M. Disch), he has published many novels, collections of short stories and of poetry, as well as children's fiction and two works of poetry criticism. He has contributed poems regularly to Hudson Review, Light, Paris Review, Poetry (Chicago) and the Times Literary Supplement; he writes reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation and others.

Author Biography

Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1940, Tom Disch grew up in the Midwest before moving to New York in the 1960s. An acclaimed writer of science fiction he has also published several novellas (one of which was made into a film by Walt Disney), ten collections of poetry and two books of poetry criticism. He is a renowned reviewer.
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