The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems

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“Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion

“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, radiant gift of The ...

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Overview

“Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion

“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, radiant gift of The Intricated Soul.”—David Baker

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
At one point in this retrospective, Santos inadvertently describes his own poems as a “soft susurrus/ of myriad whispered conversations/that after all is said and done/ still keep the painful sum of things.” This collection draws from Santos’s five books and includes a significant body of previously unpublished work. Santos is a storyteller, creating vignette-like poems that draw the reader completely into an alien moment. He is unabashedly intimate (”I fear I’m growing less able to answer: Who was she/ whose death now made her a stranger to me?”) and often manages to strike the note between anecdote and maxim: “Was I, / I wondered, spilling over into the world, / or was the world spilling over into me?” The new poems, perhaps written in concert with his recent translation of Greek lyric poetry, draw on the god Pan, Aeneas, and Thucydides to deal with mourning, genocide, and uncertainty. These poems make strong points, but are somehow less compelling than the older ones that confide in us: “that was the dream,/ that was the beginning, when I got/ out of bed on a warm spring morning/ in the middle of June.” (Mar.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393342765
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/6/2012
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 1,373,060
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Sherod Santos has been a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 8, 2010

    the life's work at last

    I'd been hoping Santos would finally put together a collection of new and past work, especially since a couple of the early books are out of print and hard to find at used bookstores. Now that it's out, I'm more thrilled than I'd anticipated to read all the books as one book, and to see how his central themes of memory, recovery, the subtlest intonations of human emotion, the great swirl of history, have developed over time from nocturne into symphony. He is a poet of the mind as well as the heart, or maybe it's better to say that he feels what he thinks and thinks what he feels. Whatever it is, it's an engrossing and soul-transforming book. Highly recommended.

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