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Little Elegies for Sister Satan
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in contemporary avant-garde poetry, modernist influences, and experimental literary forms. It suits those who appreciate challenging, abstract, and deeply reflective works addressing cultural and existential themes.
Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse
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Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award).
Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: "When I think of 'possible worlds,' I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds."
In the light of day
perhaps all of this
will make sense.
But have we come this far,
come this close to death,
just to make sense?
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Critically lauded for its surrealism and symbolism, the book has been described as "magnificent" by the New York Times Book Review. Joshua Clover of Village Voice calls Palmer "the most influential avant-gardist working" and praises his ability to unsettle through a radical interplay of the philosophical and personal. Reviews highlight Palmer's elegant and abstract modernist style that leaves a lasting impact, with American Poet noting how his experimental language haunts readers long after reading. Norman Finkelstein terms the collection "a remarkable achievement" marking an important event in contemporary poetry.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780811230896
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 189g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Michael Palmer was born into an Italian-American family in Manhattan in 1943 and has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has taught at numerous universities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and has published translations from a variety of languages, in particular French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. He has been involved in joint projects with many visual artists and composers in the United States and elsewhere and has also served as an artistic collaborator with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for close to fifty years. Palmer's honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and he was awarded the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award. In 1999, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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