The Trembling Answers

ISBN-13: 9781942683315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str.

Craig Morgan Teicher

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At once an extension of and a departure from his previous explorations of family and art, Craig Morgan Teicher s The Trembling Answers delves boldly into the tangled realms of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family lifeincluding the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with severe cerebral palsythese personal narratives brightly illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.Video Baby MonitorA watched
pot never boils, so perhapsa son on a screen never
dies. Like the eyesof a painting this image
follows wherever we move.Surveillance is love, love
is every moment the last.Barely moving picture, memory
of now, sleep, be still, besafe. Night is long, life short.
I cover you with my eyes.Craig Morgan Teicher: is the author of four books of poetry and fiction and the editor of Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (2016). A prolific critic and reviewer of poetry, he has worked at Publishers Weekly for 10 years, where he is currently Director of Digital Operations. He teaches at New York University and Princeton University.
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