
Nostos
by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Title:
Nostos
Author:
V. Penelope Pelizzon
Series (if any):
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Ohio University Press
ISBN-13:
9780821412992
EAN:
9780821412992
Publication Date:
29/02/2000
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
256
Dimensions (mm):
215 x 140 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life—and she sees it for what it is. Her vision is then both passionate and dispassionate at the same time, a maturity of perspective that is just one of the many accomplishments of this superb first book.”In Nostos (the voyage of return) V. Penelope Pelizzon demonstrates again and again a worldly perspective, made clear and complex by her intelligence that is itself a treat to witness at play. Whether set in a Purgatory garden or on the platform of a bombed train station, these poems enthrall with language that is, in the words of one reader, “both the vehicle for vision and the vision itself.”Nostos is indeed a voyage—of the mind and heart—guided by Pelizzon’s compelling images and rhythms and one that returns us to where we started, but not unchanged.











