Early and Late: Selected Poems (New Criterion Series)

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Early and Late: Selected Poems (New Criterion Series)

Early and Late: Selected Poems

Written by Donald Petersen
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Here is the first winner of the New Criterion poetry prize. Petersen has long been an under-appreciated master of formal verse. He is a perfectionist, willing to spend actual years polishing and re-polishing his poems. If it is hard to tell the older poems from the new, that is because what they really are is timeless. --Donald Justice

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Published September 25, 2001
ISBN 1507281
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Donald Petersen writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Donald Petersen lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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