THE TIME TRAVELER
R>ems
1983-1~
Joyce Carol Oates
A new collection of poetry from an extraordinary American writer
'The rewards of an interest in others, and in the O ther, are here manifest: a vita lit y
beyond the verbal , the souls dispatches. R ead 'em and leap.
"-Richard Howard
"These poems are so accomplished- with such control of form and subtlety of
feeling- that they prove again, if proof were needed , that Joyce Carol Oates can
command our language to do her bidding in whatever form she chooses. "
-Carolyn Kizer
"Joyce C arol O ates is best known for her stories and novels, but the poetic power
that informs them finds direct voice in her poems, from vivid imagistic pieces to
glancing looks at the risks and costs of living itself."-
Theodore Weiss
"From miniaturist dramatic monologues to acerbic social commentary, these poems,
tempered by bursts of sur prising lyric tenderness, are stamped with Joyce Carol
Oates's insight into our human condition.
"-Maxine Kumin
"The bright center of all of Joyce Carol Oates's ar t and craft has always been her
poetry; and these new poems in
The Time
Trat,e!er
offer the urgent energy,
intelligence, grave concentration, presented by a clear and individ ual voice, which
we have come to expect from her poetry. But there is, as well , a full matu rity of
vision, nowhere more openly moving than in a haunting series of elegies- for
W illiam G oyen, John G ardner, R aymond Carver.
"-George Garrett
A William Abrahams Book
E.
P.
Dutton
$18.95 cloth. $9.95. paper
