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Go Giants
Go Giants, Nick Laird's stunning third volume of poetry, is full of "epic ambition." In a collection that's "easily his most accomplished to date...[Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-provoking as his considered response to an infinitely complicated universe needs it to be" (The Guardian). Laird boldly engages with topics ranging from fatherhood and marriage to mass destruction and the cosmos. Go Giants is a brash, brave, and wildly imaginative new collection.
From Go Giants:
Go in peace to love and serve the.
Go and get help. Go directly to jail.
Go down in flames. Go up in smoke.
Go for broke. Go tell Aunt Rhody.
Go tell the Spartans. Go to hell.
Go into detail. Go for the throat.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Sep 9th, 2013
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.52in - 0.25in - 0.26lb
- EAN: 9780393347449
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Laird, Nick: - Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic, and the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. His many honors include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The poem "Up Late" was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Laird taught for ten years in New York City and currently lives in London and Ireland.
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Praise for this book
One could wear out a thesaurus of superlatives describing his stanzas with their insouciant rhythms and line breaks that appear like a cliff in a cartoon, leaving you momentarily suspended in space with a dizzying view.--Michael Autrey "Booklist"
Displays an almost child-like wonder in the variety and slippage of language, alongside an adult sensibility of its boundless possibilities and dangers...Here are some of Laird's most successful and mature poems.-- "The Times (London)"
A happy marriage of intellect and economy... Laird's observations in these precision-tooled poems are deft and graceful.--Michael Robbins "Chicago Tribune"
Masterful...a work of scholarship and a labor of love.--Michael Goodwin "New York Post"
Streetwise, edgy and downright cool.... History, Greek myths, personal gossip, library carrel graffiti and the general ephemera of contemporary urban existence all find their way into [Flynn's] elegant assemblages.--Troly Jollimore "The Washington Post"