A Several World

Poetry. As in the title phrase--borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick--in which "several" is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A SEVERAL WORLD there are glimpses of an "us down here"--in the understory, in the open clearing--and, by various projections, there is frequent attainment of an aerial vantage, a post otherwise abdicated. Landscape here is spatial theater, and a choreography recruits all standalone selves: solidarity beginning in an erotics of attunement, catching likenesses.

"This clever, busy, anxious, flirtatious poet, with his 'predilections for predicaments, ' can connect anything to anything else."--Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review

Author: Brian Blanchfield
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 111
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781937658175


Award: National Book Awards - Nominee