Unions
Published on 1. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-0-9893296-1-3 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "He has had the skill and courage to confront, absorb, and renew our poetic tradition at its most vital."--Harold Bloom
"Few poets could sustain, as Corn does, both the fiery voluptuousness of the abstract oracular passages, and the broken simplicity of the late 20th-century voice, tentative, self-conscious, unheroic."--Wayne Koestenbaum
"Seeing the very fact of mobility and diversity as an epic theme, he brings to it a discerning eye and ear, a marvelous memory for detail, and above all an exhilarating range of sympathy."--Amy Clampitt
"Few poets could sustain, as Corn does, both the fiery voluptuousness of the abstract oracular passages, and the broken simplicity of the late 20th-century voice, tentative, self-conscious, unheroic."--Wayne Koestenbaum
"Seeing the very fact of mobility and diversity as an epic theme, he brings to it a discerning eye and ear, a marvelous memory for detail, and above all an exhilarating range of sympathy."--Amy Clampitt
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9893296-1-3 (9780989329613)
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UNIONS is Alfred Corn's eleventh book of poems. He has also published a novel, Part of His Story; two collections of essays; and THE POEM'S HEARTBEAT (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a study of prosody. For his poetry, he has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, preparing a translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies, and returned as a Life Fellow for a second residency in 2013. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA. Later this year, Eyewear will publish his second novel, Miranda's Book.