Selected Poems - Rilegato

Halpern, Daniel

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Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679429867 ISBN 13: 9780679429869

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

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Poetry covers such subjects as friendship, loss, isolation, love, and death

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"The way Mr. Halpern feels around inside his poems is...so free and effortless and unerring -- exploring all the strange corners, touching strange blooms and surprising corals in a submarine grotto, then coming up for air without a ripple. The personal poems -- the autobiographical surgical probings -- are very moving, painfully so m places, very pure. And the finger-testing of old wounds, old encysted shrapnel fragments. I could read a whole autobiography of those. And what a book it would be -- full of those mesmeric noticings (like 'Stazione') and curlings up, and scorpion tails, of old snapshots (like 'Coffee'). I love the way he dances through that last supper ('House of Flame') -- his sacrament of care, touching everything with a fringe of sun-glow or moon-glow. Till it's all prepared and in place." -- Ted Hughes

"Daniel Halpern's poems are remarkable for their quiet -- the intimacy of a man talking honestly to himself...His lines break with the gentle snap of a twig, with natural poignancy. His range is not narrow; it achieves width by concentration. The quality of memory that Halpern strives after in poem after poem and which he repeatedly achieves is that nod of agreement which truth gives to experience, whether of praise or of pain."

-- Derek Walcott

"Daniel Halpern has such a strangely disturbing sense of place that somehow becomes internal rather than descriptive, while at the same time physically evocative -- something deeply sad. These poems speak to me in the best, most private way, as I always feel poetry should."

-- Nadine Gordimer

L'autore:

Daniel Halpern was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1945 and has lived in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, and Tangier, Morocco. He is the editor of Antaeus and of the Ecco Press, and a recipient of many grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Halpern teaches in the graduate writing program of Columbia University and divides his time between New York City and Princeton, New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Daniel Halpern teaches in the graduate writing program of Columbia University.

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