Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Selected from more than four decades of journal keeping, and with additional excerpts from published essays, ANALECTS speaks to the general reader, and specifically to those who have interests in poetry and poetics....

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Poetry. "This collection, ARTIFICIAL LIFE, includes several night scenes, lit as if by an expanding network of fireflies. From a lofty but wordless height, the poet suddenly swoops towards some arresting detail--a party spilling onto a street, a com...

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Poetry. "These poems are lively and smart and musical"--Robert Pinsky. "The poet embraces a 'beast-handler' family, servants to animals, and gamely joins in the ancient trade. Gessner shepherds in a menagerie of mythical beasts, mentors and poets. B...

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Poetry. "The poems in Michael Gessner's new collection, TRANSVERSALES, are formally dazzling—incisive, witty, and smart—but compassion tempers linguistic brilliance. In a series set in Paris, for instance, a visit (against advice) to the "labyrinth ...

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Fiction. "In this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized—whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual—and brilliantly inhabits them, evoking their passions, their yearnings, and also ...

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