Descartes' Loneliness - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Allen GrossmanSeries:New Directions Paperbook #1093Publish date:2007-12-17Pages:76
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217118ISBN-10:811217116UPC:9780811217118Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Poetry, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:9.04 x 6.37 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCPMVCJTK3
Descartes' Loneliness
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217118ISBN-10:811217116UPC:9780811217118Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Poetry, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:9.04 x 6.37 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCPMVCJTK3
Grossman, Allen: - 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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