The Dictionary of Unspellable Noises - McCown, Clint
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The Dictionary of Unspeakable Noise: New & Selected Poems 1975-2018 shows how Clint McCown ". . .keeps a wry eye on the universe and thereby keeps his sanity and ours." And why "He is asking all or most of the big questions, which are still the right questions," according to Roger Mitchell. Matthew Dickman says that McCown's poetry ". . .delves into the unruly world of nature, not as a guide or simply as scenery, but with the steady gaze of the late John Haines. Here nature, family, and selfhood are not just talked about but explored and questioned." Open this book to any page and you'll find…mehr

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The Dictionary of Unspeakable Noise: New & Selected Poems 1975-2018 shows how Clint McCown ". . .keeps a wry eye on the universe and thereby keeps his sanity and ours." And why "He is asking all or most of the big questions, which are still the right questions," according to Roger Mitchell. Matthew Dickman says that McCown's poetry ". . .delves into the unruly world of nature, not as a guide or simply as scenery, but with the steady gaze of the late John Haines. Here nature, family, and selfhood are not just talked about but explored and questioned." Open this book to any page and you'll find Clint McCown turning the universe over and over in his mind to find the answers to his sometimes unusual and always perceptive questions.
Autorenporträt
Clint McCown is the only two-time recipient of the American Fiction Prize, he has also received the Midwest Book Award, the Sister Mariella Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Germaine Breé Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, and a Distinction in Literature citation from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has published four novels, six collections of poems, and one collection of stories, Music for Hard Times: New & Selected Stories. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in over seventy-five national journals and magazines. He has edited a number of literary magazines, including Indiana Review and the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he founded. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. In 2021 he was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame at Wake Forest University.