Editors: James Jay and Miles Waggener
Through his five poetry collections starting with Home in 1983 and ending with American Children in 2005, Jim Simmerman built a reputation as one of America's foremost poets. His poems are evocative and intimate, conversational and deceptively penetrating. He wrote about isolation, loneliness and regret in ways that rose above self pity. He brought a tenderness to pain, a delicacy to hard-fought truths.
His final, unpublished poems were devastating and wise. Editors James Jay and Miles Waggener have collected the best of Simmerman's career, some of the greatest hits that earned Simmerman nominations for the Putlizer and National Book Award, and new, previously unpublished works, into a single volume. The Blood and the Bone and the Flesh of It All resurrects a unique and vital voice in American letters.
Gorsky Press
ISBN: 978-1-941576-23-6
Editors: James Jay and Miles Waggener
Through his five poetry collections starting with Home in 1983 and ending with American Children in 2005, Jim Simmerman built a reputation as one of America's foremost poets. His poems are evocative and intimate, conversational and deceptively penetrating. He wrote about isolation, loneliness and regret in ways that rose above self pity. He brought a tenderness to pain, a delicacy to hard-fought truths.
His final, unpublished poems were devastating and wise. Editors James Jay and Miles Waggener have collected the best of Simmerman's career, some of the greatest hits that earned Simmerman nominations for the Putlizer and National Book Award, and new, previously unpublished works, into a single volume. The Blood and the Bone and the Flesh of It All resurrects a unique and vital voice in American letters.
Gorsky Press
ISBN: 978-1-941576-23-6
