Practical Gods

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Carl Dennis

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English

Penguin USA
01 October 2001

Poetry; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Poets

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

A critically acclaimed literary treasure, Practical Gods is a captivatingpoetrycollectionthat transcends conventional perspectives.

Many of the poems inthis eighth collection by Carl Dennis involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with some ultimate reality, these clear, precise, sensitive poems help us to pay homage to the everyday household gods that are easy to ignore, the gods that sustain life and make it rewarding.

By: Carl Dennis
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780141002309
ISBN 10: 0141002301
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carl Dennis is the author of nine books of poetry, including Practical Gods, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, in 2000 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association for his contribution to American poetry. He teaches in the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is a sometime member of the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.