Dara A Wier

Blood, Hook and Eye

Blood, Hook and Eye

Eight-Step Grapevine

All You Have in Common

All You Have in Common

The Book of Knowledge

The Book of Knowledge

Blue for the Plough

Reverse Rapture

Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of everything, these explorers, and the poems recounting t...

Blue for the Plough

Dara Wier's recent books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002), and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), a book length poem in nine-line stanzas in nine-stanza pieces, was selected by Stephen Rodefer to receive th...

Now Culture lit mag

Poetry by Joshua Beckman, Sarah Manguso, Franz Wright, Jennifer L. Knox, Leni Zumas, Matthew Rohrer, Gary Hotham, Mike Alexander, Dara Wier and fiction by Barry Yourgrau, also, interviews and essays. This is nowculture.com's first Kindle edition. Now Culture is an online literary magazine comprised ...

Hat on a Pond

Dara Wier’s poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence."—Harvard Review

Selected Poems

Praise for Dara Wier’s previous work:"Wier's poems explode with variety, particularity, whirlwinds of detail and mystery . . . memoirs, dialogues, choral performances witnessing scenes both weird and familiar."—Rain Taxi"Dara Wier's Reverse Rapture is a mosaic whose colossal proportions contradict t...

You Good Thing

"This anti-elegy, both reverent and funny, anticipates the funny reverence that Wier finds, makes up, and sustains throughout her decades of subsequent writing."—Jacket MagazineDara Wier's loose sonnets insist on a living language in the face of death, cycling and vibrant as the water that runs thro...

Our Master Plan (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

This is a fine softcover copy of the book. Pages are clean and tight. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0887482945. ISBN/EAN: 9780887482946. Inventory No: 011740.

The Book of Knowledge (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

This is a fine softcover copy of the book. Corners have very light wear. Tight, clean pages. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 011739.

Dara Wier

Dara Wier (born 1949) is an American poet and recipient of such honors as The Guggengheim Foundation award, The National Endowment for the Arts, the...

Dara Wier

Dara Wier (born 1949) is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently Selected Poems. She has received literary awards ...