Blindsight
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Blindsight
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Witty, touching, introspective-Blindsight finds Hewett becoming a parent and easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.
Endorsements (potential): Carl Phillips, Frank Bidart, Henri Cole, Mark Doty, Elaine Equi, Stephen Burt Early access copies National print, radio, and online campaign Targeted bookseller mailing Excerpts under consideration at Paris Review, New Yorker Advertising: Bookforum Promotion at: BookExpo America, Winter Institute, AWP, Heartland Fall Forum Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels Giveaways on Twitter, Instagram & Goodreads Simultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed Targeted publicity to promote author's speaking engagements
Praise for Greg Hewett:
2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
2003 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Winner
In poems that are full of wit, touching, and introspective, as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his sight, becoming a parent, and occupying middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.
From Skyglow:
we spin filaments of light into profiles,
drawing each other
through something resembling time and space and dark.
Let's call this something something vague and mythic as the ether. Let's say we're ethereal.
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Reviewers praise Blindsight for its plainspoken, conversational, and confessional style that reflects universal human desires and urges. The poetry resists nostalgia while probing the gaps in perception and language, offering a thoughtful, sceptical look at poetic metaphor and the transcendent versus the earthly. The collection is noted for its poignant reflections on the contemporary moment and the nature of knowing and feeling.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781566894487
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 December 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 184g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Greg Hewett is the author of darkacre (Coffee House Press, 2010), The Eros Conspiracy (2006), Red Suburb (2002), and To Collect the Flesh (New Rivers Press, 1996)-poetry collections that have received a Publishing Triangle Award, two Minnesota Book Award Nominations, a Lambda Book Award Nomination, and an Indie Bound Poetry Top Ten recommendation. The recipient of Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, Hewett has also been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France, and is Professor of English at Carleton College. He is currently finishing a biography of the film noir actor Thomas Gomez.
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