Mercury Dressing Paperback by J. D. McClatchy

Product Details

• Publisher: Knopf (2011-05-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780375711787
• Item Weight: 189.95 grams
• Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.35 cm

This beautiful collection from J. D. McClatchy holds up a mirror to the soul, considering heroic and human figures in poems that “balance mandarin wit with enormous learning, a fully twenty-first-century sensibility and a deft use of the demotic” (Bookpage).

About the Author

J. D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poems, three collections of prose, and thirteen opera libretti. A teacher at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy is also the president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.