The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale: Poems

ISBN-13: 9780996858472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 70 str.

Albert Goldbarth

Opis

True to its title, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale is a community of poems that address ideas of perspective, of proximity?of what happens when the large-scale universe collides with our human-scale joys and disasters. But this collection is not a dry treatment of its subject: love affairs, a dramatic encounter with whales, and visits to famous consciousness-altering historic moments all lead up to a bravura narrative poem about Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to recognizably see the submicroscopic world. Poems brief, long, contemplative, comic . . . two time National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Albert Goldbarth delivers another dynamic experience.