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Product Description: Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "David Wojahn's poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality. Yet as poems, they are far from usual...read more

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9780300028171 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
9780300028164 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $6.95 | also contains Synthetic Worlds: Emerging Technologies in Education and Economics | About this edition: Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

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Poems deal with the past, night, fathers, parenthood, language, war, travel, and religion

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9780822935537 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with the past, night, fathers, parenthood, language, war, travel, and religion

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9780822953890 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with the past, night, fathers, parenthood, language, war, travel, and religion

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Product Description: David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history...read more

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9780822936374 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history.

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9780822954293 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, May 29, 1990, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline the critical, creative, aesthetic, and cultural forces at work in the American poetry of this century...read more

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9780809313495 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline the critical, creative, aesthetic, and cultural forces at work in the American poetry of this century.

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Product Description: Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline the critical, creative, aesthetic, and cultural forces at work in the American poetry of this century...read more

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9780809313488 | 1 edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 18, 1991), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline the critical, creative, aesthetic, and cultural forces at work in the American poetry of this century.

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Product Description: This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects drawn from news events.

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9780822937937 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry.

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9780822955306 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, October 25, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Late Empire, David Wojahn’s most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation.

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Poems deal with social and historical issues, including the Holocaust, AIDS, urban violence, and prison

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9780060553630 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1995), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with social and historical issues, including the Holocaust, AIDS, urban violence, and prison

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9780060951122 | 1 edition (Perennial, June 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with social and historical issues, including the Holocaust, AIDS, urban violence, and prison

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Product Description: The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series of blistering elegies written after the sudden death of Wojahn’s wife, the poet Linda Hull...read more

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9780822939955 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation.

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9780822956426 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation.

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Product Description: Spirit Cabinet is an ambitious work, seamlessly mixing autobiography with subjects ranging from pop music to ancient Egypt, from Stalin’s reading habits to Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition. Formally inventive, elegiac and redemptive, aesthetically and emotionally risky, this is Wojahn’s most ingenious and compelling collection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780822957768 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Spirit Cabinet is an ambitious work, seamlessly mixing autobiography with subjects ranging from pop music to ancient Egypt, from Stalin’s reading habits to Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition.

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Paperback:

9780822961420 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, February 20, 2011, cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780472072507 | Univ of Michigan Pr, March 26, 2015, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780472052509 | Univ of Michigan Pr, March 26, 2015, cover price $29.95

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