POETRY Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction,Wyatt Prunty, General Editor
DEEP GOSSIP new and selected poems by SIDNEY WADE Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, one capable of the clarity and inventiveness it takes to work a problem both to pleasure and to
A great and frequently subversive book by a lyric poet at the height of her craft.
resolution. Playing with and challenging form in all directions, the 27 new and 96 selected poems in Deep Gossip bristle with a sly wit that trips and delights the reader. Inspired by landscape, language,
music, and living things, as well as the occasional bout of political outrage, Deep Gossip is a smart collection, deceptively so.
Praise for Other Books by Sidney Wade
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“The quick, closely observed poems in Sidney Wade’s beguiling Bird Book move from page to page like their subjects—in flight, on air, a murmuration sweeping across the horizon.”—William Souder “Sidney Wade’s linguistic and philosophical turns in Bird Book confirm that she is both the supreme heir to Wallace Stevens and one of the most original poets in the language.”—Randall Mann “This is a beautiful, wise, and timely collection.”—Daniel Anderson “Her poems [are] . . . a particular and splendid instance of what Hopkins meant by ‘poetry proper, the language of inspiration.’”—Richard Howard Poet and translator Sidney Wade (GAINESVILLE, FL) is professor emerita of creative writing at the University of Florida. She is the author of seven collections of poetry: Bird Book, Straits & Narrows, Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and Istanbul’dan / From Istanbul.
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