Practical Gods
2001 collection of poems by Carl Dennis
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Practical Gods is a collection of poems by Carl Dennis published in 2001 by Penguin Books. The collection won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[1] and the 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.[2]
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| Author | Carl Dennis |
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| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| ISBN | 0141002301 |
Contents and description
One of the guiding motifs of the collection is the imagined interaction between humans and gods, for which Dennis draws off the Greek and Christian pantheons.[3] The poems of Practical Gods can be generally described as free verse[4] and which John Taylor called "thinking poetry" given a heavy emphasis on "exposition of thought" rather than sensory description.[5] Donna Seaman described the register of the collection as "plainspoken".[6]
