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Be with / Forrest Gander ; with six photographs by Michael Flomen.

by Gander, Forrest, 1956-

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New Directions Publishing Corporation, c2018.

John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 -- Poetry.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Mothers -- Death -- Poetry.

New Directions paperbook ; 1408.

9780811226059 (pbk.)

92 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page.

Text in English and Spanish.

Son -- Beckoned -- Epitaph -- Deadout -- Carbonized forest -- Entenderment -- Madonna del Parto -- On a sentence by Fernanda Melchor -- Stepping out of the light -- What it sounds like -- Where once a solid house -- The sounding -- First ballad: a wreath -- Archaic mano -- Tell them no -- Evaporacion: a border history -- Ruth -- Littoral zone.

"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 like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, 'the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane'." --From publisher.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2019.

Flomen, Michael.

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