Be with (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811226059)

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."

Author: Forrest Gander
ISBN-10: 0811226050
ISBN-13: 9780811226059
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.40d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/01/2018