Little Elegies for Sister Satan

Little Elegies for Sister Satan PDF Author: Michael Palmer
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ISBN: 9780811230896
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Shaped by his long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse now

Little Elegies for Sister Satan

Little Elegies for Sister Satan PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811230896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Book Description
Shaped by his long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse now

Little Elegies for Sister Satan

Little Elegies for Sister Satan PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds,’ I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” In the light of day perhaps all of this will make sense. But have we come this far, come this close to death, just to make sense?

The Promises of Glass

The Promises of Glass PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214797
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook", "The Promises of Glass", "Q", "Four Kitaj Studies", "Five Easy Poems" "In an X", and "Tower". These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies". His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban world of late twentieth-century America."

Codes Appearing

Codes Appearing PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214704
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Codes Appearing combines in a single volume three seminal and long unavailable collections by Michael Palmer. This volume rescues from limbo three of his most beautiful poetry volumes: Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun (1981, 1984, 1988). Making available a great deal of Palmer's most influential, exciting, and stunning work, Codes Appearing is a landmark volume. The significance of his writing is every day more recognized. "It is impossible," as The Boston Review noted, "to overstate Palmer's importance." "Michael Palmer, '" as Joshua Clover declared in The Village Voice, "is the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation.... And his books, including the essential '80s triptych of Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun, are organized not by story but by a dreamland of calculus and sway....[Palmer's] genius is for making the world strange again."

Company of Moths

Company of Moths PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216234
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Michael Palmer has been hailed by John Ashbery as ``exemplarily radical'' and by The Village Voice as ``the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation.

The Laughter of the Sphinx

The Laughter of the Sphinx PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811225540
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A powerful, indelible new collection by Michael Palmer--"one of America's most important poets" (The Harvard Review)

Thread

Thread PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Book Description
Thread presents eighty-six new poems by "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (The Poetry Society of America's 2006 Wallace Stevens Award citation).

The Lion Bridge

The Lion Bridge PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
A selection of 118 poems by twentieth-century American poet Michael Palmer, drawn from throughout his career from 1972 to 1995.

Active Boundaries

Active Boundaries PDF Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
He investigates an "active boundary" as it relates to a sense of form as well as, Palmer writes, "to a more social sense of poetic activity as it exists in the margins, along the borders and, so to speak, 'underground'.""--Jacket.

To Go Into the Words

To Go Into the Words PDF Author: Norman Finkelstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039415
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Book Description
A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language