The centrepiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister", is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister. In the other poems, Sherod Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of the Holocaust, myth, and contemporary history to explore private loss.
This collection of classical lyric poems, translated by Sherod Santos, answers Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mandate that 'The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation ...with one more possession of beauty'. And indeed, the reader finds here the plenty of the gods in poems of freshness, vigour, ...
The centre-piece of this collection, "Elegy for my Sister", is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems he follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of myth and history.
This semi-autobiographical book navigates through a lifetime's worth of loves, obsessions, disappointments, and fleeting glimpses, alternating between loose blank verse and prose and between lyric--often tensely erotic--vignettes and theoretical meditations. It is an intensely focused exploration of the many and different ways women have affected ...
In this book of prose, poet and essayist Sherod Santos takes a look into some of poetry's deepest secrets, an investigation that leads him to the conclusion that poems have minds of their own, minds often inaccessible even to the one who composed them. In these essays, the author explores not only what he thinks about poetry but also what and how ...
In poems at once searing and soft-spoken, The Perishing travels between the bounded reach of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. A double villannelle tracks the course of genocide from Tamerlane to Pol Pot; a narrative reconnects an exiled South American tyrant in a Paris cafe to the killings fields of the country; the paired ...
Collects neo-Romantic poems dealing with the social and political concerns of the poet, including "Greencastle," "Red Advancing," and "Book of Blessings.".
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