Erratic Facts

Erratic FactsKay Ryan "a classic American poet" (John Freeman) is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects existence, consciousness, love, loss in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance.

Kay Ryan--"a classic American poet" (John Freeman)--is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style.

At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects--existence, consciousness, love, loss--in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Sly rhymes and strong cadences lend remarkable musicality to her incisive wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that has characterized her singular voice over the course of more than 20 years, her mind is sharper than ever, her imagination more eccentric and daring. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan's place at the pinnacle of American poetry, and proves that she will remain among the leading innovators in literary history.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 10/06/2015
ISBN: 9780802124050
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly 09/21/2015
Booklist 10/01/2015 pg. 11
Shelf Awareness 10/13/2015
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 01/03/2016 pg. 22