Descartes Loneliness Pa

by Grossman,Allen

• ISBN13: 9780811217118
• ISBN10: 0811217116
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom). Allen Grossman's newest workDescartes' Lonelinessblends 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."

Author Biography

Allen Grossman has served as a professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Descartes' Loneliness	p. 3
Shipfitters	p. 4
Wash Day	p. 6
A Day's Work	p. 9
The Caedmon Room	p. 10
Winter at the Seashore	p. 11
Timor Mortis, Inc., A Switchboard Memory	p. 13
City of David	p. 14
The Invention of Night	p. 17
The Lending Library	p. 21
You Will Be Wrapped in Silk	p. 23
A Long Romance	p. 24
You Have Beautiful Hair, Irene	p. 26
I Am That I Am	p. 27
"Warble," Says the Bird	p. 31
The Famished Dead	p. 32
Treason	p. 37
A Kiss for You	p. 38
A Gust of Wind	p. 39
Lost, Lost	p. 43
My Radiant Eye	p. 45
Rain on a Still Pond	p. 47
Abide with Me, Fast Falls the Eventide	p. 49
Port Sunlight	p. 50
Vocation the Third Dream	p. 52
How the Immense Cathedral Fell	p. 55
The Sun Does Not Begin the Day	p. 56
At Sunset	p. 58
The Black Tower	p. 59
Splendor	p. 60
Votre Altesse	p. 61
Afterword: The Title of this Book Called Descartes' Loneliness	p. 63
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