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Poetry

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Ripe Roy Jacobstein Winner of the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry Selected by Edward Hirsch "Nothing in Roy Jacobstein's large experience––a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the 'befuddlement' of childhood, the wisdom of the nursing child, the lab, the boardroom, the luminous common heritage of the printed page––nothing appears to have been lost on him or, thanks to him, on us. In a world beset with loss, this exhilarating, mindful, compassionate book allows us the dream of wholeness. It is tonic for the soul. It is (of how many books can this be said?) from poem to poem and vista to vista, good company."—Linda Gregerson Roy Jacobstein is a physician and former official of the United States Agency for International Development. He has received the Randall Jarrell Prize for his chapbook Blue Numbers, Red Life and has been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The book by our other poetry prize winner for this season fits well with Roy Jacobstein's book, find out more about it too, by clicking on Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.

September 2002 92 pp.          6 x 9 ISBN 0-299-18250-9  Cloth $26.95 s ISBN 0-299-18254-1  Paper $14.95 t To order click on one of the bulleted items below For explanation of the SHOPPING CART OPERATIONS MasterCard/Visa holders, accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart and submit your order electronically. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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