"McGrath is] a writer who could help save poetry from academia and get the rest of us reading it again."
--Outside Magazine

From the MacArthur "Genius Grant" and Kingsley Tufts Award winner Campbell McGrath, acclaimed author of Shannon, comes In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys, an electric new collection of poetry. Writing in the poetic tradition of Walt Whitman, McGrath captivates with ironic romanticism as he lyrically explores the banality of the everyday--from the decay and transformation of the nation's cities to "Shopping for Pomegranates at Wal-Mart on New Year's Day"--in poems that entreat us to love what endures amid the detritus of American pop culture.

Author: Campbell McGrath
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.08w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780062110909


Award: 2013 Florida Book Award Gold Medal Winner - Poetry

About the Author
McGrath, Campbell: -

Campbell McGrath is the author of nine previous books, eight of them available from Ecco Press. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his poetry, including a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been published in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among other prominent publications, and his poetry is represented in dozens of anthologies. He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University, and lives with his family in Miami Beach.