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Be With

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Publishers WeeklyÂ Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Ganderâ€™s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy

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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 sectionâ€”a moving transcription of Ganderâ€™s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimerâ€™sâ€”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, â€œthe most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.â€

Country	USA
Author	Forrest Gander
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780811226974
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
NumberOfPages	96
PublicationDate	2018-08-28
Publisher	New Directions
ReleaseDate	2018-08-28
Studio	New Directions

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