Go Giants
Nick Laird
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21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 09, 2013
Pages
69
Dimensions
5.52 X 0.25 X 8.27 inches | 0.26 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393347449
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About the Author
Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and critic. His many honors include the Eric Gregory Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fourth collection of poems, Feel Free, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Award. The Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast, Laird lives in London and Ireland.
Reviews
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
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.
A happy marriage of intellect and economy... Laird's observations in these precision-tooled poems are deft and graceful.--Michael Robbins
Masterful...a work of scholarship and a labor of love.--Michael Goodwin
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
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.
A happy marriage of intellect and economy... Laird's observations in these precision-tooled poems are deft and graceful.--Michael Robbins
Masterful...a work of scholarship and a labor of love.--Michael Goodwin
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
