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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Nurkse, D., 1949-     Subjects     Families -- Poetry.     Immigrants -- United States -- Poetry.     Estonians -- United States -- Poetry.     American poetry -- 20th century.     American poetry -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nurkse, D., 1949-       by title:      A country of strange...       by call number:      811.54 N974c     Search the Web     Nurkse, D., 1949-     Families -- Poetry.     Immigrants -- United States -- Poetry.     Estonians -- United States -- Poetry.     American poetry -- 20th century.     American poetry -- 21st century.       MARC Display

A country of strangers : new and selected poems / D. Nurkse. by Nurkse, D., 1949- Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Call #: 811.54 N974c Subjects Families -- Poetry.   Immigrants -- United States -- Poetry.   Estonians -- United States -- Poetry.   American poetry -- 20th century.   American poetry -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780593321409 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiii, 286 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi book." Includes index. Contents:  A country of strangers: New poems -- Shadow wars -- Isolation in action -- Voices over water -- Leaving Xaia -- The Rules of paradise -- The fall -- Burnt Island -- The border kingdom -- Love in the last days -- A night in Brooklyn. Summary:  "The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years. D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures. Whispers of the old country of Estonia provide the backdrop for the boy's baseballs, thrown in the fading twilight of the 1950s ('Secretly, I was proudest of my skill / at standing alone in the darkness'). The young man explores sexual passion and the arrival of a child in a young marriage ('We showed her daylight in our cupped hands'), while the mature poet writes of loneliness and community in our cities ('but on the streets / there was no one'), and the urgent need for us to keep expressing our will as citizens. Throughout this matchless career, Nurkse has crafted visceral lines that celebrate the fragility of what simply exists -- birdsong, moonrise, illness, water towers -- and the complexity of human perception, our stumble forward through it toward understanding"--Publisher. Genre:  American poetry. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.54 N974c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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