Descartes' Loneliness
Allen Grossman
(Author)
Description
Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death. Poems such as The Famished Dead, where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, one at a time, confirm Jorie Graham's observation that from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard--Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
December 17, 2007
Pages
64
Dimensions
6.37 X 0.25 X 9.04 inches | 0.27 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811217118
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Allen Grossman is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a MacArthur Foundation grant recipient and the author of many books of poetry, including The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground and The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River.