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."
ISBN: | 9780811226059 |
Publication date: | 21st September 2018 |
Author: | Forrest Gander |
Publisher: | New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 92 pages |
Series: | New Directions Paperbook |
Genres: |
Poetry |