Twice Alive (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811230292)

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.
While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma--several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives--but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.

Author: Forrest Gander
ISBN-10: 0811230295
ISBN-13: 9780811230292
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/21/2021