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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Be with

Be with

Gander, Forrest

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0811226050
ISBN13: 9780811226059
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Aug 28 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
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.

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