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"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. b...
| Main Author: | Gander, Forrest, 1956- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Flomen, Michael (Photographer) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Published: |
New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
New Directions paperbook ;
1408. |
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| Summary: |
"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'"-- |
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| Item Description: |
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92). |
| ISBN: |
9780811226059 0811226050 |
| Author Notes: |
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