Hurry Back
Poems
Will be published approx. on 8. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-9717265-9-8 (ISBN)
Description
Here are Alvin Greenberg's poems of experience, his grown man's tribute to negative capability. He knows we live in a world of indeterminacy, with our various ignorances and failures of language. Yet without prettying-up these conditions, his Hurry Back offers an unsentimental, clear-eyed paean to them, a kind of "elegiac lean-to / set right out in the weather because the weather's / what there is and where we do our loving".
Though such sagacity pervades this book, these are not poems of resignation. Greenberg knows the birds on the highway "almost always fly up in time," but he's not going to let that "almost" stop him from driving a little over the speed limit.
Though such sagacity pervades this book, these are not poems of resignation. Greenberg knows the birds on the highway "almost always fly up in time," but he's not going to let that "almost" stop him from driving a little over the speed limit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sandpoint
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9717265-9-8 (9780971726598)
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Person
Alvin Greenberg is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and librettist. His new novel, Time Lapse, was published in 2003 by Tupelo Press, and The University of Utah Press published his collection of personal essays, The Dog of Memory: A Family Album of Secrets and Silences, in 2002. His most recent collection of short stories, How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from Graywolf Press; previous collections include The Man in the Cardboard Mask (Coffee House Press), Delta q(University of Missouri Press), and The Discovery of America (Louisiana State University Press). His collections of poetry include Why We Live with Animals (Coffee House Press) Heavy Wings (Ohio Review Press), and In/Direction (David R. Godine). He has also collaborated on three operas with composer Eric Stokes, most recently Apollonia's Circus (premiered at the University of Minnesota, 1994). After teaching for thirty four years in the Macalester College English Department in St. Paul, Minnesota, he now lives in Boise, Idaho, where his wife, poet Janet Holmes, teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.