The Border Kingdom: Poems - Softcover

Nurkse, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375711635 ISBN 13: 9780375711633

Verlag: Knopf, 2018

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From the award-winning poet: a powerful collection that explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. Now in paperback.

In "Ben Adan," a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness the drama between a captor and the prisoner commanded to dig his own grave ("perhaps in a moment / he will lift me up / and hold me trembling, / more scared than I / and more relieved"). "After a Bombing" examines children's drawings as deep symbolic reactions to 9/11. The subtly majestic "Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn" builds the poignant case for a lost world: "Where is Policastro the locksmith now?" the poet asks. "Half-blind, he wore two pairs of glasses / held together by duct tape, / . . . / afterward the key turned / for you but not for me." In exploring the small empires of human conflict, which expand in all directions, Nurkse is attuned to the scraps of beauty or insight that marginal characters and corners of the world might offer up in the midst of moral darkness. With The Border Kingdom, he has given us a collection unfailingly rich in imagery, undaunted in subject and spirit.

Biografía del autor:

D. Nurkse is the author of eight previous books of poetry. He has received a Whiting Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. He has also written on human rights. He lives in Brooklyn.

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• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0375711635
• ISBN 13: 9780375711633
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112