Often, Common, Some, and Free

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Poems considering ever-present transformations and resisting destruction. This is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrains, these poems take on the subject of change, considering the construction and demolition of buildings, roaming between cities, and drawing together an image of a world in flux. The speaker is in movement—walking, flying, swimming, and taking the train, while also constantly twisting in his sentences, turning into different versions of himself, and braiding his voice with others. These poems take on subjects that encompass creation and loss from Robert Moses’s career transforming the cityscape of New York to the robbery of works from Boston’s Gardner Museum. But, ultimately, these poems aim to resist destruction, to focus on the particular, and to hold still their world and their ever-shifting speaker.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-21
Mått:153 x 228 x 7 mm
Vikt:152 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:80
Förlag:Omnidawn Publishing
ISBN:9781632430946

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Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea, The Hartford Book, and Listener. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Lana Turner, Volta, and elsewhere. He is the director of the MFA Program at the University of South Carolina, where, with Liz Countryman, he edits the journal Oversound.

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“I soaked up these poems like a character wandering from pool to pool in a John Cheever story. I dove into them as into an enchanted David Hockney swimming pool painting. Samuel Amadon immerses you in the ‘advanced fantasies’ of a silver-tongued poet. Meaning is never exactly narrative. It’s saturated with vernacular fluency, lyrical acuity, expressive idiosyncrasy. You simply have to read this fascinating book to grasp its mercurial energies, its enigmatic clarity. Often, Common, Some, And Free is remarkable and wonderfully irreducible.’”