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Just About Anything
New and Selected Poems
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A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron. A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious. A poem itself is an...
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Description
A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron.
A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious. A poem itself is an inquiry or a search, that is never finished, never fulfilled. As Wislawa Szymborska said, "Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'"
Just About Anything delves into the essence of poetry, capturing the enigmatic nature of words and their inherent limitations in explaining the inexplicable.
Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
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Just About Anything
A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron. A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious. A poem itself is an inquiry or a search, that is never finished, never fulfilled. As Wislawa Szymborska said,...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
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Phone Ringing in a Dark House
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780887487132
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 March 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Jonathan Aaron is the author of three previous books of poems, including Second Sight, Corridor, and Journey to the Lost City. His poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Raritan, among others, and they have been included five times in Best American Poetry. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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