Counting
Dan Bellm
(Author)
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Description
In the title poem of Dan Bellm's Counting, a circle of rabbis in Talmudic times confess to each other ruefully, "I have never in my life prayed with intention...." "I have been counting chickens...." "I have been counting the layers of stone in the wall...." These poems, on a seeking-and-straying spiritual quest of their own, count and recount the layers of days in a life, ranging widely from yearning, elegy and political outrage to passion, devotion, and gratitude.
Product Details
Price
$15.99
Publisher
Finishing Line Press
Publish Date
March 24, 2023
Pages
46
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.11 inches | 0.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9798888381809
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About the Author
Dan Bellm is a poet and translator living in Berkeley, California. Recent books ofpoetry in translation include Speaking in Song, by Pura López Colomé (2017), The Songof the Dead, by Pierre Reverdy (2016), and Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue, by JorgeEsquinca (2015). His fourth book of poems is Deep Well (2017); his third, Practice (2008), won the California Book Award. He teaches literary translation and poetry at AntiochUniversity Los Angeles, and serves as a volunteer interpreter for Central Americanimmigrants and asylum seekers at Centro Legal de la Raza, Oakland.
Reviews
Dan Bellm honors the practice of counting: counting time down, counting time forward. And he engages his readers in the practice of marking our moments, and our moment, with unaccountable grace.-Forrest Hamer, author of Call & Response, Middle Ear, and Rift
Counting offers us Dan Bellm's deft conversational tone and his blending of the deep and the quotidian, with mesmerizing cadences that carry us further into ourselves and further into the wider world, both accountable and accounted for.-Molly Fisk, author of Listening to Winter and The More Difficult Beauty
Counting offers us Dan Bellm's deft conversational tone and his blending of the deep and the quotidian, with mesmerizing cadences that carry us further into ourselves and further into the wider world, both accountable and accounted for.-Molly Fisk, author of Listening to Winter and The More Difficult Beauty
