- Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and recent winner of one of the most prestigious poetry awards, the Ruth Lilly Prize. Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise, original, and often deeply moving" poems that "ease the reader out of accustomed modes of seeing and perceiving" (The New York Times).
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Character-led, spare, contemplative and intimate.
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- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Carl Dennis
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 77
- Publisher
- Penguin Poets
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141002309
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