Wow by Bill Manhire
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Spanish The End of the West

The End of the West (2009)

From this imaginative core

Salvage at Twilight ends with 'Deposition'

Zaffar Kunial

combining various forms of verse with severe literary restrictions

Wow by Bill Manhire <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Spanish The End of the WestBill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow', and the wonder is real at the world and