{"product_id":"be-with-9780811226059","title":"Be with","description":"Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's--rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, \"the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGander, Forrest:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFORREST GANDER\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in northern California and has published books of poems, translations, and essays. He has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eBe With\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720814072082,"sku":"9780811226059","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0896fd75-ac74-46fa-bc78-48709ac873c4.jpg?v=1734677009","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/be-with-9780811226059","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}