The Stranger World

Ryan Wilson's unsettling debut collection The Stranger World is filled with poems of menace and promise, surprise and sorrow, tempered by gentle humor and always tuned to a fine music. The long poem 'Authority' reads like a masterpiece of modern horror. The deeply psychological 'Xenia' is a minor miracle of a poem. These pages contain 'real shores across imagined seas . . . where black suns set, ' where the poet meditates on 'that present unity / of absences the living move among.' Each page of The Stranger World yields a new delight. Wilson proves himself a worthy heir to Anthony Hecht with this remarkable, disarming, and genuinely moving book. Seek it out. -- Ernest Hilbert

• | Author: Ryan Wilson
• | Publisher: Measure Press Inc.
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 104 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 193957420X
• | ISBN-13: 9781939574206