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Be With

Be With

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers WeeklyÂ Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Ganderâ€™s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy
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 sectionâ€•a moving transcription of Ganderâ€™s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimerâ€™sâ€•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, â€œthe most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811226059
ReleaseDate 2018-08-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811226059

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