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Little elegies for sister Satan / Michael Palmer.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.A54 L58 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, Michael, 1943- author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1500.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1500
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 117 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents searingly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Poetry Society of America's 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.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- ISBN:
- 9780811230896
- 0811230899
- OCLC:
- 1201298221
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