The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems

The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets.

The new poems experiment with form, and address a life that is shrinking in specific ways: the poet is aging, the world is getting smaller, our post-9/11 freedoms are eroding, and our choices seem fewer and less attractive. Despite feelings of anger and loneliness, the narrator speaks to us in a personal, accessible, and often humorous voice.

Author: Peter Meinke
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/03/2022
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780822959182
Award: Florida Book Award - Bronze Medal Winner