Author:
Gander, Forrest, 1956- author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Imprint2018
Description92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:Son -- Beckoned -- Epitaph -- Deadout -- Carbonized forest -- Entenderment -- Madonna del Parto -- On a sentence by Fernanda Melchor -- Stepping out of the light -- What it sounds like -- Where once a solid house -- The sounding -- First ballad: a wreath -- Archaic mano -- Tell them no -- Evaporacion: a border history -- Ruth -- Littoral zone.
Note:"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.'" -- Provided by publisher.
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