Peter Streckfus

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The Cuckoo

Peter Streckfus

2003 Younger Poets winner
Score: 10.53

In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and astonishing power. Taking his inspiration from both American and Chinese culture, Streckfus seems an impossible combination of John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. In her Foreword, Glück praises Streckfus’s art for it “nonsense and mystery,” its “mesmerizing beauty” and “luminous high-mindedness.”