Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.

Author: Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.24w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780393331448

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2008 pg. 24
New York Review of Books 12/18/2008 pg. 83

About the Author
Voigt, Ellen Bryant: - Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of volumes of poetry, including Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. Voigt was awarded the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, where she was subsequently elected a chancellor. Her poems have appeared in an array of national journals and anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. She lives in Vermont and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.