Forrest Gander – författare

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander responds to the provocative photographs of Jack Shear.

The Essential C.D. Wright gathers rare selections across the famed poet’s entire oeuvre—from the first book, Alla Breve Loving (1976), through to ShallCross, which was in production at the time of her unexpected death in 2016. Tracing a writing life that spans more than four decades, this essential collection illuminates works that remain empowered by an unrelenting independence, a reverence for mentors, and wry, wisecracking lyricism. A formally restless, energetic, uncompromising, and utterly unique voice, C.D. Wright introduced a contemporary audience to the promise and power of docupoetics, while pushing the musical boundaries of vernacular speech and reshaping American poetry. With a moving introduction by Forrest Gander, this volume cements C.D. Wright’s place in the literary canon.

The Essential C.D. Wright gathers rare selections across the famed poet’s entire oeuvre—from the first book, Alla Breve Loving (1976), through to ShallCross, which was in production at the time of her unexpected death in 2016. Tracing a writing life that spans more than four decades, this essential collection illuminates works that remain empowered by an unrelenting independence, a reverence for mentors, and wry, wisecracking lyricism. A formally restless, energetic, uncompromising, and utterly unique voice, C.D. Wright introduced a contemporary audience to the promise and power of docupoetics, while pushing the musical boundaries of vernacular speech and reshaping American poetry. With a moving introduction by Forrest Gander, this volume cements C.D. Wright’s place in the literary canon.

"Forrest Gander knows that the poet's first duty is 'to see what's there and not already patterned by familiarity' - and in Your Nearness he brings to that task a combination of vision, generosity of spirit and humility in the face of wonder that singles him out as one of the fi nest, and most vigilant, poets working in English today."

- JOHN BURNSIDE

"There's a deep personal feeling found in Forrest Gander's desperately beautiful 'Librettos for Eros' [in which] feeling masters the poems, and it is feeling about self, desperate, squandered, willful, all but out of control - and ultimately uncivilized...."

- THOM GUNN

I den Pulitzerprisade diktsamlingen Vara med skriver Forrest Gander, djupt in i sorgen över sin hustru C.D. Wrights bortgång, smärtsamt om sina försök att nå fram till sin alzheimersjuka mor vid hennes vårdbädd, stilla dikter som förvandlas till uppenbarelser.

Men Vara med rör sig också fram och tillbaka över gränsen mellan USA och Mexiko i Ganders uppväxttrakter, dess historia, kultur, geologi och ödesmättade betydelse idag. Gander fångar behovet av mänsklig närhet genom sorg, förlust och ånger.

Forrest Gander föddes 1956 i Mojaveöknen, växte upp i Virginia och är bosatt i Kalifornien. Han är verksam som poet, romanförfattare, essäist och är som översättare flitig introduktör av världspoesin i usa.