Translated here for the first time into English by Nicholas Benson, the poems of Attilio Bertolucci's WINTER JOURNEY (Viaggio d'inverno) direct our gaze on communal life and health in moments of deceptive calm. Through a careful accounting of the situation of poetry-of the places and events that give rise to poetic motives and sensibilities- WINTER JOURNEY evolves an account of parallel illnesses: the author's nervous anxiety, and the broader afflictions of an emergent consumer society. Increasing social proximity serves mainly to illuminate a persistent isolation, relieved only and tenuously...
Translated here for the first time into English by Nicholas Benson, the poems of Attilio Bertolucci's WINTER JOURNEY (Viaggio d'inverno) direct our ga...
Writing across the curriculum is experiencing a renaissance in institutions across the country. This volume is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people developing those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community.
Writing across the curriculum is experiencing a renaissance in institutions across the country. This volume is not only a history of early WAC program...
Description Signs Following explores how the language of poetry can engage with history, temporality, and the fact of embodiment in the physical world of change and difference, while yearning for some transcendent guarantee of meaning. The poems in Signs Following express this tension by pushing their language, occasions, and formal attributes beyond a comfortable clarity in an attempt to discover what meanings and values, if any, can reside on the other side of the work. In the course of these explorations, the poems engage also with the history and limits of the lyric itself, testing the...
Description Signs Following explores how the language of poetry can engage with history, temporality, and the fact of embodiment in the physical world...
A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that are transforming the world, even as it searches to understand, within that reckoning, the possible...
A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern...
This History That Just Happened is a debut collection of poems that explore the ways in which history is invented instantly through the narratives we create around intimate experiences. Inspired by a deep sense of place and geography, and drawing from the traditions of poets like Lorine Niedecker and Gustaf Sobin, these poems interweave human experience within an ever-changing natural world where a natural history is constantly being written and overwritten on the landscape and geography. The poems explore the ways in which writing history is challenged both by a lack of...
This History That Just Happened is a debut collection of poems that explore the ways in which history is invented instantly through the na...
System and Population is a lyric account of the proposed damming of the American River in Northern California. It explores the intersections of personal and cultural experience, scientific study, and politics of dams and rivers; meditates on human experiences, such as parenthood and loss; and studies the effects of environmental damage and disaster.
About the Author
Christopher Sindt is a professor of English at Saint Mary's College of California, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as...
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System and Population is a lyric account of the proposed damming of the American River in Northern Cali...
In his sixth book, Donald Platt starts a poem by exclaiming, "The days are one thousand / puzzle pieces." He gathers up the days into this book of terrors and ecstasies decanted in seamlessly reversing tercets of long and short lines, syllabic couplets, and lyric prose. The puzzle pieces include a dying father-in-law, AIDS, maimed World War I veterans, Caravaggio's painting of the beheading of St. John the Baptist (his largest canvas), and the story of a gay boxer who KOs and kills the opponent who has called him a faggot at the weigh-in. It is a book that encompasses contradictions. The...
In his sixth book, Donald Platt starts a poem by exclaiming, "The days are one thousand / puzzle pieces." He gathers up the days into this book of ...
