Bøger af George Garrett

Although George Garrett is best known for his outstanding fiction, he has also written a large body of superb poetry. This generous compilation brings together the work of almost a half-century and adds to it some forty-three new poems.

Each piece in The Cry of an Occasion celebrates the distinctness of southern experience, giving expression in story form to a singular episode of mind, heart, or will. Reading this exemplary collection is pure pleasure.

The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Locales presents poetry of truly superlative quality, gathering works by Fellowship members and by esteemed writers.

Few if any are better endowed than George Garrett to comment on the general and the particular, the long and the short, of southern letters in our time. Southern Excursions contains more than fifty of the best essays, reviews, and other short pieces of his career.

The author takes readers to the front lines of news coverage with some of themost memorable stories of the past five decades.

Readers will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities that distinguished Garrett's earlier collection of verse-the pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of "pretty" poetic words, the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangel

In this, his third book of poetry, Garrett presents recent poems that enhance a reputation already well established for charm of language, a frank and perceptive approach to experience, strong images, and a large understanding of life and feelings.

This collection of essays by novelist and poet, George Garrett presents his meditations on the art and craft of writing. Garrett is the author of 32 books and among his many honours are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.