{"product_id":"correspondence-with-my-greeks-9781639821716","title":"Correspondence with My Greeks","description":"\u003cp\u003eCiting a line from Elizabeth Bishop-\"The bight is littered with old correspondences\"-Scott Cairns avers: \"So, also, is my mind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, it was Bishop's \"The Bight\"-encountered late in his undergraduate education-that may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a \u003cem\u003eresponsive\u003c\/em\u003e text, something of an epistolary response to what the writer beholds-the landscape, the heavens, or-as in most cases-another prior \u003cem\u003etext\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to volumes by Coleridge, Keats, Bishop, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden, Cairns keeps collections by his beloved Greeks-Kavafy, Elytis, and Seferis-on his writing desk. In corresponding with them, he engages some of the profound and recurring themes of his distinguished career: the mystery of creation (and its absent\/present Creator), the sense that every word-every \u003cem\u003eterm\u003c\/em\u003e-proves to be less a terminus than a point of departure, and a vision of inexhaustible Love transcending all apparent limits, all neat binaries, including that of heaven and hell. These poets have served as his mentors, his provocateurs, and-in his mind at least-his primary audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorrespondence with My Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e is a work at once deeply human and hauntingly transcendent, the full flowering of the poet's lifelong devotion to the generative power of the word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Cairns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639821716","brand":"Slant Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42896207020169,"sku":"9781639821716","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8be9661a-45b8-4d5c-bcb2-82c85e65a49e.jpg?v=1723527272","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/correspondence-with-my-greeks-9781639821716","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}