Belmont: Poems - Brossura

Burt, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1555976441 ISBN 13: 9781555976446

Casa editrice: Graywolf Pr, 2013

Riassunto

The new poetry collection by Stephen Burt, "one of the most gifted poets of his generation" (Frank Bidart)
*An NPR Best Book of 2013 * A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Poetry Book of Spring 2013 *

Our skills are finally in demand.
If you mock us, Pan,
In whom we also believe, do it
As gently as you can.
—from "The People on the Bus"

In Belmont, Stephen Burt maps out the joys and the limits of the life he has chosen, the life that chose him, examining and reimagining parenthood, marriage, adulthood, and suburbia alongside a brace of wild or pretty alternatives: the impossible life of a girl raised by cats, the disappointed lives of would-be rock stars, and the real life to which he returns, with his family, in the town that gives the book its name, driving home in an ode-worthy silver Subaru. Can a life be invented the way a poem can? What does it mean for a precocious child, or a responsible grown-up, to depict the world we want? With wit, beauty, tenderness, and virtuosity, these poems define the precarious end of extended adolescence, and then ask what stands beyond.

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Recensione:

'The collection is dominated by virtuostic turns and eclectic imaginings made all the more charming by Burt's constant self-reflexive adress to the reader as co-conspiritor and part of his larger 'we'.' - The New York Times Book Review

'[Belmont] explores themes of adulthood, parenthood and personhood with tenderness, intelligence and wonder.' --Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Stephen Burt is the author of three poetry collections and several critical books, including Close Calls with Nonsense, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Harvard University and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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• Editore: Graywolf Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1555976441
• ISBN 13: 9781555976446
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96