Moreover

Moreover

Poetry. The poems in Aaron Anstett's MOREOVER, by turns laconic and garrulous, hard-boiled and tender, magnify gaps and unreliabilities in the surface of things through which the depths of an underlying desolation, a nameless existential care, and the mystery of love may be glimpsed; they make a swaying bridge over the abyss of loss. "Number among my umpteen flaws detached glibness," he writes; "Who would disagree that little's glitchless?" What he calls his glibness, transmitted with a compressed but graceful musicality, often attains an unsentimental lyricism all the more touching for its reticence. His audacious imagination and relentless intelligence give rise to a richly ironic humor that is often valedictory, somber, even grim, but never without profound affection and attention.

"What makes Aaron Anstett's poems unforgettable? Is it the last known photograph of Robert Desnos, in Theresienstadt, 1945? A pigeon feather on pavement? A speaker who asks, 'Who's most dumbstruck anything exists?' No to all of those, I'd say, for what this poet gives us are not just things and their tragedies but moments in which to witness our own gestures toward life, the acts of willed and failed attention that constitute hopeâ€”a hope both breathtaking and fleeting, as the poems unfurl line by line, in a syntax built to mend, then break, then mend again, your heart."â€”Susan Tichy
Country USA
Brand Sagging Meniscus Press
Manufacturer Sagging Meniscus Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781944697037
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781944697037
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Sagging Meniscus Press
Manufacturer	Sagging Meniscus Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781944697037
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781944697037
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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