The Laughter of the Sphinx
Michael Palmer's new book-a collection in two parts, The Laughter of the Sphinx and Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)-contains 52 poems.The title poem begins The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed and haunts us with the ruin we are making of our world, even as Palmer revels in its incredible beauty. Such central tensions in The Laughter of the Sphinx-between beauty and loss, love and death, motion and rest, knowledge and ignorance-glow in Palmer's lyrical play of light and entirely hypnotize the reader. The stakes, as always with Palmer, are very high, essentially life and death: Please favor us with a reply / regarding…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2554-0
- EAN: 9780811225540
- Produktnummer: 19514835
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 150 g
- Gewicht: 150
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Winner of the Shelley Memorial Prize, Michael Palmer (b. 1943) has written twenty-two books of poetry, been translated into dozens of languages, and himself translates from several. He has been called exemplarily radical (John Ashbery), astonishing (Paul Auster), one of America's most important poets: startlingly lyrical and visceral (The Harvard Review), and among America's most elegant-and abstract-heirs to modernist poetry (The Believer).
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