“Pretend that these poems by Lawrence Raab have come to you from very far away. Think of them as written by Poet Z, a heretofore-unheard-of Eastern European poet, a Kafka-Andrade-Calvino character from Serbo-Chechnya-Lithuania. What’s in his poems? Angels and human monsters, decades and generations, universities turned into ashes, the consolation of philosophy, despair in the middle of the night, a tutorial in lucid dreaming. Only his poetic humor gives away his American citizenship. His poems lead you into, then trap you, in strange worlds, boxes constructed of story, logic, and aphorism, which then are revealed to be exactly like life itself. Now, these poems by Z have finally been translated into an American idiom that is canny, sly, defeated, pessimistic, resilient, and perplexingly knowledgeable about the human predicament. They are also often beautiful, bewildered, disquieting, and full of paradoxical laughter and contemplative solace. Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts is a tender, lonely, deeply intelligent tour of that distinctive country of the soul.”
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. N° de réf. du vendeur 39323178-75
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paperback. Etat : Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. North Adams. 2015. September 2015. Tupelo Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781936797653. 84 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Poetry. DESCRIPTION - 'Pretend that these poems by Lawrence Raab have come to you from very far away. Think of them as written by Poet Z, a heretofore-unheard-of Eastern European poet, a Kafka- Andrade-Calvino character from Serbo-Chechnya-Lithuania. What's in his poems? Angels and human monsters, decades and generations, universities turned into ashes, the consolation of philosophy, despair in the middle of the night, a tutorial in lucid dreaming. Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts is a tender, lonely, deeply intelligent tour of that distinctive country of the soul. ' - Tony Hoagland, author of Twenty Poems That Could Save America 'I don't know anything like Lawrence Raab's poems. I can't get this voice from anywhere else, and that is very rare. 'A Cup of Water Turns into a Rose,' the long poem that concludes Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts, is spellbindingintricate and resonant in its weave, and very strange in its clarity and the odd lucid story it seems to be telling and untelling. ' - Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life. inventory #46683. N° de réf. du vendeur z46683
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