Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Into It: Poems

Into It: Poems

Joseph, Lawrence

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0374530572
ISBN13: 9780374530570
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Mar 20 2007
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.22
Language: English

Strikingly contemporary new work by an acclaimed poet

Into It, Lawrence Joseph's fourth book of poems, is as bold a book as any in American poetry today-an attempt to give voice to the extremes of American reality in the time since, as Joseph puts it, the game changed.

Joseph's first three books dramatized the challenge of maintaining one's self in a world in the hold of dehumanizing forces. The new book finds him in a time and place where the immense enlargement / of our perspectives is confronted / by a reduction of our powers of action-where the word wargame is a verb and the weight of violence / is unparalleled in the history / of the species. Along the New York waterfront, on a crowded street, at the site where the World Trade Center stood: Joseph enters into these places to capture the thoughts and images, the colors and feelings, and the language that give the present its pressured complexity. Few contemporary writers have been able to shape this material into poetry, but Joseph has done so masterfully-in poems that are daring, searching, and classically satisfying.

Also in

General Poetry

View All