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How to Do Things with Tears

How to Do Things with Tears

Grossman, Allen

Paperback

Series: New Directions Paperbook, Book 912

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0811214648
ISBN13: 9780811214643
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: May 17 2001
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
The award-winning poet's newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman's newest poetic work. This is a how-to book, Grossman explains. The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A new singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world. Like the blind bard of old, Grossman's Sighted Singer conjures visions both high and low, in mythopoetic resonances that excite the sorrows and the laughter of the gods and men.

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