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Digest

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Description

From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father's eyes and through their own.

Product Details

PublisherFour Way Books
Publish DateOctober 07, 2014
Pages84
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781935536505
Dimensions8.8 X 5.8 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry,

About the Author

GREGORY PARDLO is the author of the award-winning Totem and translator of Niels Lyngsoe's Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace. The recipient of numerous fellowships, he is a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY and teaches at Columbia University.

Reviews

..".a thrilling, brilliant, and deeply moving ride."--Nick Flynn
I read Digest. And was knocked out. The poems contain multitudes: Brooklyn, fatherhood, academia, music. They sizzle ("I was reborn at the crime scene"). They bite ("Nothing holds a family together like irony and a grudge"). Sometimes they make you laugh out loud ("I finally friended my brother")."--Tracy K. Smith "Head Butler"
"[T]hese poems are a showcase for Pardlo's ample and agile mind, his courageous social conscience, and his mighty voice."--Tracy K. Smith

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