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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Nostos
• Author: V. Penelope Pelizzon
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780821412985
• ISBN: 0821412981
• ID: 04935239
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 1999

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