Forrest Gander
1) Be with
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
92 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a tragedy involving their teenage son, a couple trying to reconnect drives through the Chihuahua Desert, following in the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce, an American writer who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1498
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the searing ecological and love poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, 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 on the tradition of Sangam literature, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illumines our deep-tangled interrelations. While conducting...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 165 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pablo Neruda's lost poems--recently discovered in his archive to the delight of readers and scholars--comprise this remarkable and essential volume. Originally composed on napkins, playbills, receipts, and notebooks, Neruda's lost poems are full of eros and heartache, complex wordplay and deep wonder. Presented with the Spanish text, full-color reproductions of handwritten poems, and dynamic English translations, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda simultaneously...
