Chelmsford Public Library

Be with, Forrest Gander ; with photographs by Michael Flomen

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Be with

1005696144

Forrest Gander ; with photographs by Michael Flomen

New Directions Paperbook, 1408

"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'" --, Provided by publisher