{"product_id":"the-little-death-of-self-marianne-boruch-9780472053476","title":"The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays Toward Poetry","description":"A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The line between poetry (the delicate, surprising not-quite) and the essay (the emphatic so-there ) is thin, easily crossed. Both welcome a deep mulling-over, endlessly mixing image and idea and running with scissors; certainly each distrusts the notion of premise or formulaic progression. Marianne Boruch's essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Little Death of Self\u003c\/i\u003e emerged by way of odd details or bothersome questions that would not quit--Why does the self grow smaller as the poem grows enormous? Why does closure in a poem so often mean \u003ci\u003ekeep going\u003c\/i\u003e? Must we stalk the poem or does the poem stalk us until the world clicks open? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Boruch's intrepid curiosity led her to explore fields of expertise about which she knew little: aviation, music, anatomy, history, medicine, photography, fiction, neuroscience, physics, anthropology, painting, and drawing. There's an addiction to metaphor here, an affection for image, sudden turns of thinking, and the great subjects of poetry: love, death, time, knowledge. There's amazement at the dumb luck of staying long enough in an inkling to make it a poem at all. Poets such as Keats, Stevens, Frost, Plath, Auden, and Bishop, along with painters, inventors, doctors, scientists, composers, musicians, neighbors, friends, and family--all traffic blatantly or under the surface--and one gets a glimpse of such fellow travelers now and then. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne Boruch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472053477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472053476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Marianne Boruch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896424259839,"sku":"9780472053476","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c430c9b7-6528-45d3-b778-24cc43124b0c.jpg?v=1721371366","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-little-death-of-self-marianne-boruch-9780472053476","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}