The Marksman (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series )

Jeff Friedman

$15.95

Publication Date: November 7th, 2020

Publisher:

Carnegie Mellon University Press

ISBN:

9780887486593

Pages:

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Description

Jeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations and transformations, of wrenching displacement and redemption. Through its imaginative reach, wild humor, and dazzling clarity of language, The Marksman centers its aim on the broken dreams of our lives, and the tough love that will redeem us.

About the Author

Jeff Friedman is the author of seven previous collections, including Pretenders, Working in Flour, Black Threads, Taking Down the Angel, and Scattering the Ashes. His poems, mini-stories, and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, and the New Republic, among other places. He has taught at Keene State College for many years and is married to the painter Colleen Randall. They live in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, with their dog, Ruby.