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9 produkter
Square Inch Hours
Poems
Inbunden, 2017
299 kr
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In the manner of a poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments that follow in the aftermath of a breakdown.Writing from an area outside psychology or personal history, the intensely solitary speaker relates the …
City of Women
A Sequence of Poems and Prose
Häftad, 1994
238 kr
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In a style that ranges through narrative, commentary, vignette, and verse, this is a sustained meditation on the nature and origins of erotic love. Sherod Santos, author of two previous volumes of verse, Accidental Weather and The Southern Reaches, explores the tumult of the inner life as he …
Pilot Star Elegies
Poems
Häftad, 2000
250 kr
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The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of myth and …
Perishing
Poems
Häftad, 2004
238 kr
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This collection's searing poems travel between the frozen moment of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. The poet tracks genocide's record from Tamerlane to Pol Pot, an exiled tyrant's return to the killing fields, and Penelope's embracing her inevitable loss of Odysseus upon his …
Greek Lyric Poetry
A New Translation
Häftad, 2006
288 kr
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Sherod Santos's new translation of classical poems answers Rosetti's mandate that "the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation…with one more possession of beauty." Arranged into four periods—Classical, Hellenic, Roman, and Early Byzantine—Greek …
Square Inch Hours
Poems
Häftad, 2019
181 kr
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A poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook and reverie, piecing together moments in the aftermath of a breakdown. With adamant attentiveness, the speaker turns his focus to reality in its minute particulars: the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating …
Intricated Soul
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2012
141 kr
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“Sherod Santos is a contemporary master of the lyric poem. In The Intricated Soul, we witness the astonishing effects of his powerful, restless poetic imagination. . . . Santos is a musician and a thinker, architect and bard, theorist and witness, and we are the lucky recipients of the singular, …
Poetry of Two Minds
Häftad, 2000
511 kr
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In his long-awaited first book of prose, poet and essayist Sherod Santos takes a compelling look into some of poetry’s deepest secrets, an investigation that leads him to the surprising conclusion that poems have minds of their own, minds often inaccessible even to the one who composed them.In …
