Bright Ambush is a collection of poems by Audrey Wurdemann, an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize at the age of 24. This book contains a selection of her most powerful and evocative works, exploring themes of love, loss, nature, and the human experience.The poems in Bright Ambush are characterized by Wurdemann's vivid imagery and lyrical language, which draw the reader into a world of sensory detail and emotional intensity. From the haunting beauty of ""The Sea is a Hungry Dog"" to the tender intimacy of ""Love Song ...
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Bright Ambush is a collection of poems by Audrey Wurdemann, an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize at the age of 24. This book contains a selection of her most powerful and evocative works, exploring themes of love, loss, nature, and the human experience.The poems in Bright Ambush are characterized by Wurdemann's vivid imagery and lyrical language, which draw the reader into a world of sensory detail and emotional intensity. From the haunting beauty of ""The Sea is a Hungry Dog"" to the tender intimacy of ""Love Song for a Soldier"", these poems capture the complexity and richness of human emotion with a rare and exquisite sensitivity.Whether exploring the natural world or delving into the depths of the human heart, Wurdemann's poetry is both deeply personal and universally resonant. With its luminous language and profound insight, Bright Ambush is a testament to the enduring power of poetry to move and inspire us.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Very Good. First edition. 76pp. Owner's penned notation and stamp on front endpapers, mildly soiled cloth, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Pulitzer prize poetry.
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Very Good in fair jacket. 8vo. [14], 76, [2] pp. Bound in full green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, in gray dust jacket printed in black. Inscribed by Poet on front free endpaper: "To Carolyn Savidge/Audrey Wurdemann/May 29, 1934." Wurdemann won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this, her first collection of poems. Very Good+, age-toning to pages, otherwise internally clean, rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, gilt lettering on spine is dulled, in Fair heavily age-toned dust jacket, front cover is detached, all but top two inches of spine is missing, heavy chipping and wear to extremities, horizontal mark across middle of rear cover.
