Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

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Wesleyan University Press, 12. nov 2002 - 64 pages

Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book.

Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the creative process. The poems gathered in Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, first published in 1974, show us that the concerns of the author have not changed since she was in her twenties. Hers is a poetry of fact — of science and nature, eternity and time, and how we know what we know. Often commended for their precise imagery, these poems speak of the love between people, storytelling and poetry's form.

 

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Contents

Foreword by Michael Collier ix
1
Tying His Tie and Whistling a Tune Zimmer Strikes
14
II
27
After Noon
41

Other editions - View all

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems
Annie Dillard
Snippet view - 1974
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems
Annie Dillard
No preview available - 1986
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems
Annie Dillard
No preview available - 1988

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About the author (2002)

Annie Dillard was born Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1945. She received a B.A and an M.A. in English from Hollins College. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books including Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Holy the Firm, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Living, and Mornings Like This: Found Poems. She won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She wrote an autobiography entitled An American Childhood. Her work also has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and Cosmopolitan. She taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University.

Bibliographic information

PealkiriTickets for a Prayer Wheel
Wesleyan Poetry Series
Wesleyan poetry program
AutorAnnie Dillard
EditorMichael Collier
Editionreprint
PublisherWesleyan University Press, 2002
ISBN0819565369, 9780819565365
Length64 pages
  
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