| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New Directions Paperbook ; 1408 |
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New Directions Paperbook ; 1408.
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| Note |
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Language |
Text in English and Spanish. |
| Subject |
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 -- Poetry.
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John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591. (OCoLC)fst00037204
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Mothers -- Death -- Poetry.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry.
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Mothers -- Death.
(OCoLC)fst01026948
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
(OCoLC)fst01239966
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Flomen, Michael, photographer.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780811226059 (paperback) |
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0811226050 (paperback) |
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