Be with /
Gander, Forrest, 1956-
Be with / Forrest Gander ; with six photographs by Michael Flomen. - First edition. - 92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page.
"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'" --
9780811226059 0811226050
2018002148
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 --Poetry.
Mothers--Death--Poetry.
Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry.
Poetry.
Be with / Forrest Gander ; with six photographs by Michael Flomen. - First edition. - 92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page.
"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'" --
9780811226059 0811226050
2018002148
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 --Poetry.
Mothers--Death--Poetry.
Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry.
Poetry.