| Be with Contributor(s): Gander, Forrest (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811226050 ISBN-13: 9780811226059 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2018002148 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.30 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's--rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, "the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane." |
Contributor Bio(s): Gander, Forrest: - Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry, he has translated works by Coral Bracho, Alfonso D'Aquino, Pura Lopez-Colome, Pablo Neruda, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University. |