Double Life: Poems - Couverture souple

Tobin, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807129569 ISBN 13 : 9780807129562

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Daniel Tobin's stunning new collection, Double Life, takes its name from a vision of humanity at once passionately earthbound and spurred by the metaphysical. These poems range from haunting meditations on the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to an astonishing polyphonic sequence based on the life of Father Bartolomeo de Las Casas, who died in 1566 and wrote the first bill of rights in the New World. Between these two longer orchestrations appear works both musically diverse and startling in their formal virtuosity, as attuned to Plato, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, and the natural world as to TV talks shows, the news, physics, movies, and fast-food restaurants. From the persona of an Irish-Catholic Brooklyn youth on a school trip to Spain to that of a grown man of the suburbs "hollowed by doubt... / it's only the observance / of words I keep now to stay the soul," Tobin shows us the search for a way to encompass the world, turning Christian motifs toward new meanings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Tobin is a poet, editor, translator, and essayist whose work has been named among the best books of the year by the New York Times. His honors include the Discovery/The Nation Award, the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807129569
• ISBN 13: 9780807129562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 53
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