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The Laughter of the Sphinx
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Ideal for readers of avant-garde and modernist poetry, those who appreciate deep explorations of complex themes, and lovers of lyrical, abstract verse.
A powerful, indelible new collection by Michael Palmer-"one of America's most important poets" (The Harvard Review)
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Michael Palmer's new book—a collection in two parts, The Laughter of the Sphinx and "Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)"—contains 52 poems. The title poem begins "The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed" and haunts us with the ruin we are making of our world, even as Palmer revels in its incredible beauty.
Such central tensions in The Laughter of the Sphinx—between beauty and loss, love and death, motion and rest, knowledge and ignorance—glow in Palmer's lyrical play of light and entirely hypnotize the reader. The stakes, as always with Palmer, are very high, essentially life and death: "Please favour us with a reply / regarding our one-time offer / which will soon expire."
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Praised as "magnificent" with "an astringent blend of surrealism and symbolism" (The New York Times Book Review), Michael Palmer's work is regarded as "exemplarily radical" by John Ashbery. The Village Voice hails him as "the most influential avant-gardist working" and "perhaps the greatest poet of his generation," while The Believer calls him "among America's most elegant–and abstract–heirs to modernist poetry."
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ISBN: 9780811225540
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 June 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 145g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Born in 1943, Michael Palmer has written twenty books of poetry and recently published his selected essays, Active Boundaries (New Directions). He has been acclaimed "one of America's most important poets: startlingly lyrical and visceral" (The Harvard Review).
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