| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Series |
New Directions Paperbook ; 1408
New Directions paperbook 1408. ^A717302
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| 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 -- Evaporación: a border history -- Ruth -- Littoral zone. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| General note | "First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page. |
| Language | Text in English and Spanish. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2018002148 |
| ISBN | 9780811226059 paperback |
| ISBN | 0811226050 paperback |
