The Word We Used for It

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-299-31434-7
Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry

Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley

In these poems Max Garland confesses, even revels in, the fabricated nature of memory. He links personal and localized patterns (fingerprints, plowed fields) to the motions animating the insides of atoms and the unfurling of remote galaxies. Back on earth, the poems honor the decidedly homespun quality of grit—how creatures both animal and human bear up in the face of mounting odds against them. Garland suggests that imagination itself requires grit, to be called upon when the more spectacular angels are otherwise occupied.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garland, Max

Über Autor(innen)

Max Garland, originally from Kentucky, is the author of The Postal Confessions and Hunger Wide as Heaven. He is a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and the first writer-in-residence for the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.