Secret Addressee | David Wojahn | Essays

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Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters, David Wojahn

$28.00

ISBN: 9798991957571

Fine Softcover; 280 pages; 6″x9″

Publication Date: November 11, 2025

Summary

Scheduled for publication in November 2025, Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters, is David Wojahn’s third collection of essays on poetry. Addressee is at once a sweeping and conscientious analysis of poetry’s importance in the context of heightened cultural politics and rapidly mutating communication. This careful scrutiny is matched by moving personal narrative and engaging storytelling.

Of Wojahn’s 2015 collection of criticism, From the Valley of Making, Lisa Russ Spaar wrote, “Fearless, honest, witty, ferociously smart, pop-culturally savvy, and in possession of a prodigious, wide-ranging intellect, Wojahn can travel in any one piece among the likes of Quentin Tarantino, St. Teresa of Avila, and reality TV with a dazzling, perspicuous brio that leaves the reader newly alive to language, the world and the self.”

Author

David Wojahn is the author of two previous collections of essays on contemporary poetry and nine collections of verse, among them Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1983-2004, a Named Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize. His awards and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for The Arts, and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He lives in Richmond Virginia, where he is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a faculty member of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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