Descartes' Loneliness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217118)

Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death. Poems such as The Famished Dead, where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, one at a time, confirm Jorie Graham's observation that from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard--Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent.

Author: Allen Grossman
ISBN-10: 0811217116
ISBN-13: 9780811217118
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2007
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.37w x 0.25d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2007 pg. 40