"The Destroyer in the Glass" by Noah Warren

The Destroyer in the Glass Noah Warren, Carl Phillips

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Series:: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 03 May 2016
ISBN:: 9780300217155
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 104 pages: 210 x 140 x 8mm

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Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

Noah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done—to ourselves and to others—in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form, rhyme, and allusion with a freer, expressive style, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through, by, and in language.

Since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has launched the careers of poets as esteemed and varied as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. Judge Carl Phillips praises The Destroyer in the Glass for “its wedding of intellect, heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self.”

Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia and received his BA from Yale University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Missouri Review, and AGNI. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of twelve books of poetry. His most recent work is the poetry collection Reconnaissance. This is his fifth year as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.