Descartes' Loneliness
A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom).

Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."
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Descartes' Loneliness
A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom).

Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."
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Descartes' Loneliness

Descartes' Loneliness

by Allen Grossman
Descartes' Loneliness

Descartes' Loneliness

by Allen Grossman

Overview

A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom).

Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811217118
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 12/17/2007
Series: New Directions Paperbook Original , #1093
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 76
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.
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Poetry
American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Jewish authors
American poetry->Male authors

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