Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, (2004). Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Vona Groarke (1964 - ) is Irish poet that teaches at the University of Manchester. She has published six books of poetry including this one. She has won multiple awards for her poetry. In this book "everything is on the move - from Elvis to oranges, from blackbirds to love - in poems that listen hard and find in movement a kind of music that is as complex and as delicate as the language used to pin it to the page. Flight features two award-winning meditations on the troubled subjects of history and time ... Other shorter lyrics and love poems develop the book's distinctive resonances" (jacket).

Turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and gilt author's name to front board. Minor fading to top edge of boards and to spine. Author's signature to title page. Else is pristine. Includes paper from The Folger Poetry Series laid in. Translucent white dust jacket with slight edge wear and slight tonight to spine. 111 pages. POET/013112. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Item #25647
ISBN: 1930630131

Price: $65.00