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Poems
Ecco
February 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0061254649
EAN: 9780061254642
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Fiction Poetry
An ant to the stars
or stars to the ant—which is
more irrelevant? Weekend Jet Skiers—
rude to call them idiots,
yes, but facts are facts. Clamor of seabirds
as the sun falls—I look up
and ten years have passed."
—from "Dawn Notebook" Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world
as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as
they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in
forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that
veers from incantatory to deadpan, these seven poetic
sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry,
time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing
of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken
collectively, Seven Notebooks composes a season-by-season
account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring
in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami
Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a
lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims
territory long abandoned by American poetry, a
characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the
most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged
writers of our time.
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