The Ether Dome is the most complete collection available of the work of one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets. Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet, and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity.

Harold Bloom

The Ether Dome

Poetry by Allen Grossman

In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. The Ether Dome is his seventh book of poems.

Paperback(published Oct, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211772
Price US
17.95

Clothbound(published Oct, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211840
Page Count
192
Portrait of Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman

Contemporary American poet

The Ether Dome is the most complete collection available of the work of one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets. Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet, and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity.

Harold Bloom