Isbn: 9781571315366 - milk hours: poems (max ritvo poetry prize) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 69 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 69 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss."We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations.Indeed, while John James begins with the biographicalthe haunting loss of a father in childhood, the exhausted hours of early fatherhoodthe questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal and public loss How do we make meaning, and to whomor whatdo we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse.…

Zustand: New. A poet of our precarious moment . . . James s searing attention is upon the fleeting, the untethered, upon fecundity and decay, the cosmic and the molecular. -CAROLYN FORCHE&Uumlber den AutorrnrnJohn James is the author of Chtho.