Thread (New Directions Paperbook Original)

Thread (New Directions Paperbook Original)

Thread presents eighty-six new poems by â€œthe foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generationsâ€ (The Poetry Society of Americaâ€™s 2006 Wallace Stevens Award citation).
Michael Palmerâ€™s new collection is structured in two parts, â€œWhat I Did Not Sayâ€ and â€œThread,â€ subtitled â€œStanzas in Counterlight.â€ It begins with a beautiful suite of poems featuring The Master of Shadows (first glimpsed in his 2006 collection The Company of Moths). The counterlight of the title section shines in shafts of Palmerâ€™s ever-surprising ironic wit, which is given to sidelong parallel leaps. Several poems in Thread directly address our endless wars, yet even in sorrow and rage the poems still glow with wonder. In multiphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are grounded in the central rootedness of the whole history of poetry and culture that has gone before. In his new poems, signature palimpsests create complex cycles of thought, â€œreturning and returningâ€ via echoes to what he has called â€œthe layering process, the process of accretion and the process of emergence.â€

Â Â Â Â Â Say / that whatever comes / goes. / /
Â Â Â Â Â The Shadow knows / nothing / such / /
Â Â Â Â Â His calling. / Round his / listing / /
Â Â Â Â Â House / the bindweed / grows.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-05-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811219211

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2011-05-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811219211

Thread (New Directions Paperbook Original)

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