Some Cares
Published on 1. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-959556-68-8 (ISBN)
Description
Benjamin Friedlander's first book in twelve years, Some Cares, is also his most autobiographical. Moving deftly from crude fact to abstract condition, the poems document a difficult decade of eldercare and mourning, of aging, unease, and fragmented knowledge. Of light and dark in alternation, seasonal rhythm, currents of feeling
The five stages of history Isolation Barter
Amnesia
Denial Anger Depression
Everything gets to happen
at least once, hypothetically;
the eventual will occur.
It all comes down
like snow, but doesn't stick My heart
is a cup that never fills.
I sip from it on occasion.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-959556-68-8 (9781959556688)
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Person
Benjamin Friedlander is a poet, scholar, and editor. His poetry collections include A Knot Is Not a Tangle (Krupskaya, 2000), The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes (Subpress, 2007), Citizen Cain (Salt, 2011), and One Hundred Etudes (Edge, 2012). As a scholar he has published numerous articles and the book Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (University of Alabama, 2004). He is the editor of Larry Eigner's criticism (Roof, 1989), Charles Olson's Collected Prose (with Donald Allen; University of California, 1997), Robert Creeley's Selected Poems (California, 2008), and Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (with Alison Fraser, Jeffrey Jullich, and Ron Silliman; Nightboat, 2023). Currently, he teaches American literature and poetics at the University of Maine, where he edits the scholarly journal Paideuma.