The Promises of Glass (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811214438)

The Promises of Glass is New Directions' third book by Michael Palmer, acclaimed as the most significant experimental American poet of his generation. The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook," "The Promises of Glass," "Q," "Four Kitaj Studies," "Five Easy Poems," "In an X," and "Tower." These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies." His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban world of late twentieth-century America."

Author: Michael Palmer
ISBN-10: 0811214435
ISBN-13: 9780811214438
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2000
Pages: 103
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.32w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2000 pg. 83