Twice Alive
An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.
      While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.
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Twice Alive
An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.
      While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.
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Twice Alive

Twice Alive

by Forrest Gander
Twice Alive

Twice Alive

by Forrest Gander

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An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.
      While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811230292
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 05/04/2021
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.

Table of Contents

Author's note 9

Aubade 13

Unto Ourselves 14

Twice Alive 17

Sangam Acoustics

Forest 21

Immigrant Sea 24

In the Mountains 26

Pastoral 28

Wasteland (for Santa Rosa) 30

Aubade II 33

Unto Ourselves II: The Persistence of Dispersed Worlds 34

Twice Alive II: Tahoe National Forest 38

Sangam Acoustics II

Post-fire Forest 41

Sea: Night Surfing in Bolinas 42

In the Mountains, Placer County 44

Pastoral 46

Wasteland 48

Aubade III 51

Unto Ourselves III: To See What's There 52

Twice Alive III: Circumabulation of Mt. Tamalpais 55

The Redwoods 63

Rexroth's Cabin 72

"Sangam Acoustics: Confluence of Time, Space, and the Human Self" by N. Manu Chakravarthy 75

Acknowledgments 81

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