Poetry. In selecting this collection for the 2000 National Poetry Series awards, Charles Bernstein wrote "ANTHEM is fresh as the first moment of the rest of your life, where invention is an attribute of grace and the intimacy of the newly coined rules the roost." The four long poems which comprise ANTHEM open outward not via abstraction but through the specifics of intimacy. Invention is ultimate-the parent, the friend, and the child, are found, finally, to impact one's public sense of community and citizenship. This collection moves from works inspired by letter, to lyrical folklore, and finally, to the private, domestic landscape.
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