Author: Michael PalmerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780811230896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780811230896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
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?
Codes Appearing
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214704
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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."
The Promises of Glass
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214797
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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."
The Laughter of the Sphinx
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780811225540
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A powerful, indelible new collection by Michael Palmer--"one of America's most important poets" (The Harvard Review)
Company of Moths
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216234
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
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.
Active Boundaries
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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.
The Lion Bridge
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A selection of 118 poems by twentieth-century American poet Michael Palmer, drawn from throughout his career from 1972 to 1995.
Baxter's Explore the Book
Author: J. Sidlow BaxterPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310871395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1846
Book Description
Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Author: Peter HandkePublisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782270302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.