Immediate Song: Poems
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- Synopsis
- From one of our finest poets comes a collection about time—about memory, remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world. Called &“the poet of things&” by Richard Howard, Don Bogen understands the ways objects hold history, even if they&’ve grown obsolescent, even when they&’ve been forgotten. So objects—rendered in cinematic detail—fill these poems. A desk, a mailbox, a house delivering its own autobiography. Hospitals: the patients who have passed through, the buildings that have crumbled. And, in a longer view, the people who survive in what they left behind: Thom Gunn, Charles Dickens, and the pre-Columbian architects who designed the great earthworks of Ohio two thousand years ago. Songs, ephemeral by nature but infinitely repeatable, run throughout the collection. &“What did they tell me, all those years?&” Bogen writes. Immediate Song offers us a retrospective glance that is at once contemplative and joyous, carefully shaped but flush with sensuous observation: a paean to what is both universal and fleeting.Praise for Immediate Song &“The poems in Immediate Song are clear, perfect stanzas containing interior music, a man&’s conscience, and his crystal reflections.&” —Washington Independent Review of Books &“From its stunning long poem &“On Hospitals,&” to its unflinching view of life &“in the twilight of empire,&” to its quiet, deft, and subtly lyrical &“song&” poems, Immediate Song is at once an extended elegy, a meditation on time, and a hard-won articulation of the largeness of small moments. Simultaneously ambitious and understated, these poems are unmistakably of today&’s America, even as they mine the timeless concerns of loss and memory. Bogen is a brilliant and singular poet—wise yet unassuming, sharp yet unpretentious—with much to teach us about the complexities of living in the world.&” —Wayne Miller, author of We the Jury
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 86 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781571319449
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781571314819
- Publisher:
- Milkweed Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 04/01/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Text by Don Bogen
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.