The History of Forgetting - Couverture souple

Raab, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143115820 ISBN 13 : 9780143115823

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2009

Synopsis

Lawrence Raab's richest work to date-his saddest, funniest, most personal, and most searching book

Of Lawrence Raab 's 1972 debut, Mark Strand wrote:

"This is a first book with more authority and wisdom in it than most poets are able to manage in their entire careers. I am amazed by its casualness and clarity, its forcefulness, its engrossing strangeness." Mystery and strangeness remain at the heart of Raab's work, but now they are revealed more fully through the world around us-everyday deceptions, inexplicable violence, unexpected tenderness, the comedy of hope and desire. In one poem, Proust appears in Raab's class to confront a student who disputes the great author's claim that "the true paradises are the lost paradises." And in the title poem, set just before the Fall, the snake alone understands how people will come to yearn "for whatever they'd lost, and so to survive/ they'd need to forget."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lawrence Raab is Professor of English at Williams College, where he has taught since 1976. He is the author of four previous collections of poems, most recently What We Don't Know About Each Other, winner of the National Poetry Series and finalist for the National Book Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143115820
• ISBN 13: 9780143115823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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