In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton

$16.95

SKU: 9781937658441 Categories: , ,
Author: Britton, Donald
Publication Date: 06/01/2016
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

Described as “dazzling” by Edmund White and as a poet “who has The Gift and delivers The Goods” by Kenward Elmslie, Donald Britton published just one book of poetry, Italy, before his death from AIDS in 1994. In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton reprints Italy alongside previously unpublished and uncollected poems to display the full range of Britton’s fresh, vivid language and subtle humor. It is poetry by turns glamorous, wistful, intellectual, and elegant, the sharp-eyed observations of a penetrating mind lost to the world too soon.