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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. 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."

Author: Forrest Gander
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/28/2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811226059


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner