Reign of Snakes

Robert Wrigley

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Penguin Random House Australia
01 June 1999

Series: Penguin Poets

Described by the late James Dickey as ""one of the finest new poets to come along in years,"" Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995), ""To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift."" Reign of Snakes takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, ""where the dark blows a kiss to night."". . . a frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of

the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil.

--from ""Reign of Snakes""

By: Robert Wrigley
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 145g
ISBN: 9780140589191
ISBN 10: 0140589198
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 June 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reign of SnakesPart One: The Afterlife Why Do the Crickets Sing? Dark Forest Hoarfrost Flies Sad Moose Part Elegy Art Having Heard the Moon Open Grave Part Two: Amazing Grace The Pumpkin Tree Lessons Movies The Theory and Practice of Fables The Knowing After the Flood The Burned Cemetery Wanting God Our Father Part Three: Meditation at Bedrock Canyon Reign of Snakes Part Four: Night Music Ice Fishing Prey More Rain Peace Arrowhead Nostalgia Bodies Prayer for the Winter Conjure Envoy: The Name

Robert Wrigley is a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. His sixth and most recent book, Lives of the Animals, won the 2004 Poets' Prize.