TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gander,Forrest
AU  - Flomen,Michael
TI  - Be with
SN  - 9780811226059
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New Directions Publishing Corporation
KW  - John of the Cross,
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Death
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page
N2  - "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'" --
ER  -