US/EN
Be with
Forrest Gander
(Author)
Description
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."Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
August 28, 2018
Pages
80
Dimensions
5.6 X 8.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811226059
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About the Author
FORREST GANDER lives in northern California and has published books of poems, translations, and essays. He has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Be With, and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists.
Reviews
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.-- (01/28/2018)
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.-- (12/22/2018)
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.-- (12/22/2018)
Life, death, and every minor phenomenon in between feels more vivid in Gander's heartbreaking work.--Be with (12/22/2018)
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.-- (01/28/2018)
A complex reading experience punctuated by intense beauty.-- (01/28/2018)
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.-- (01/28/2018)
Gander does not turn away from grief but dives into its awful and cathartic cascading beauty that wavers between gravity and weightlessness.-- (12/22/2018)
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.-- (12/22/2018)
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.-- (12/22/2018)
Life, death, and every minor phenomenon in between feels more vivid in Gander's heartbreaking work.--Be with (12/22/2018)
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.-- (01/28/2018)
A complex reading experience punctuated by intense beauty.-- (01/28/2018)
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.-- (01/28/2018)
Gander does not turn away from grief but dives into its awful and cathartic cascading beauty that wavers between gravity and weightlessness.-- (12/22/2018)
