Messenger
New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
29 August 2008
Description
“Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2007
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2008
Also By: Ellen Bryant Voigt 
Headwaters: Poems
Paperback, 2015
Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
Headwaters: Poems
E Book, 2013
Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
Headwaters: Poems
Hardback, 2013
A meticulously crafted new volume from the acclaimed American poet whom the Washington Post Book World called a “genius.”
Shadow of Heaven: Poems
Paperback, 2003
Shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in Poetry.
Kyrie: Poems
Paperback, 1997
"Voigt's language dares to stir the dead, to remind us that we are temporary survivors."—Geoffrey Wolff
