American Analects

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Poems

By Gary Young

Brief Description

American Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to meditate upon the life, death, and the subsequent loss of the poet's influential, beloved mentor—the painter Gene Holtan. These poems are juxtaposed with poems about other losses—of parents, of friends, and friends of friends. Some... Read More

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From Gary Young, master of the prose poem, this moving collection reflects upon the death of a beloved mentor, a parent, and friends—both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Description

American Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to meditate upon the life, death, and the subsequent loss of the poet's influential, beloved mentor—the painter Gene Holtan. These poems are juxtaposed with poems about other losses—of parents, of friends, and friends of friends.

Some of these deaths were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, others by age and the inescapable journey we all take. Still, this is not a dour book. Many poems celebrate our ability to inspire, comfort, and nurture one another, and the collection is leavened with poems about family, poetry, and the healing influence of landscape and nature.

In the end, American Analects is about resiliency, about moving on from personal loss, the pandemic, and catastrophic fires, to rejoice in what remains. These poems encourage us to acknowledge the fragility of our lives and of those we love, while we celebrate those who guide us, even in memory.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892555925

Publisher: Persea Books Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Persea Books Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 107g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Gary Young Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Gary Young is a poet and artist whose many honors include recognition from the Poetry Society of America, from which he has received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013), the Shelley Memorial Award (2009), the William Carlos Williams Award (2003), and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, and the Vogelstein Foundation among others. He was the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year (2012) and the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County (2010-2011). He has also received numerous prizes including a Pushcart Prize, and various fellowships and residencies. Gary is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently That's What I Thought (2018), the 2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books, and Precious Mirror (2018), translations of the calligraphy and poems of Kobun Chino Ottawa Roshi, from White Pine Press.