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ISBN: 9780811226059

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Forrest Gander

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Nominee:National Book Award -Poetry (2018)

Winner:Pulitzer Prize -Poetry (2019)

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."

Book Details

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: Aug 28th, 2018
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
EAN: 9780811226059
Categories: • Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss• Subjects & Themes - Family• American - General

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About the Author

Gander, Forrest: - Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.

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Next Monday, tune in at @TatteredCover to see Forrest Gander, author of the novel A TRACE and the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection BE WITH, speak with Gil Adamson about literary westerns. Monday, March 1, 2021 - 5:00pm RSVP below! https://www.tatteredcover.com/event/live-stream-gil-adamson-conversation-forrest-gander-ridgerunner https://t.co/OpPwSsaTZh

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Gander's verses have a shattering, symphonic quality, but he uses poetry to locate and dislocate at once, pushing against the borders of meaning or pitching his camp where language estranges itself from sense. There are dazzling fragments, unraveling syntax, poems that, in their ghostliness, also force us to be alert to our own fragile lives.--Tess Taylor "New York Times Book Review" (12/22/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Be With charts the addled chronology of personal loss. Poetry often creates a supernatural-seeming rapport with the dead, but rarely has the communication between worlds felt so eerily reciprocal.--Dan Chiasson "The New Yorker" (12/22/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Life, death, and every minor phenomenon in between feels more vivid in Gander's heartbreaking work.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred)" (12/22/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Utterly naked and bereft, elegies, apologies, could-have-beens, Gander grieves and wonders about what's left in his life. Reading this book may hurt, but it will help people to keep living through what they thought they could never survive.--Craig Morgan Teicher "NPR" (1/28/2018 12:00:00 AM)

A complex reading experience punctuated by intense beauty.-- "Washington Post Book World" (1/28/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Gander's love for formal, even archaic language and the quiet complexity of his syntax can build striking abstract landscapes in which the material and spiritual worlds seem equally intelligent.-- "American Poetry Review" (1/28/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Written in the wake of this loss, Be With breaks form to render Gander's own brokenness, leaving gaps in the middle of lines and channeling St. John of the Cross. Gander explores his own dark night of the soul--and, as a poet particularly concerned with ecology, the dark night of our natural world.--Anthony Domestico "Commonweal" (12/22/2018 12:00:00 AM)

Gander does not turn away from grief but dives into its awful and cathartic cascading beauty that wavers between gravity and weightlessness.-- "Arkansas International" (12/22/2018 12:00:00 AM)

If Gander's philosophical strain and flamboyant lingo suggest Wallace Stevens, and his conversance with science and his stress on the 'ongoing' recall A. R. Ammons, he insinuates a knotty, digressive intensity that is fully his own.-- "Bookforum" (1/28/2018 12:00:00 AM)

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Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world.

Writer, former art museum director and curator, art historian, compulsive reader.

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