Description
Poetry. "Benjamin Friedlander speaks with ungainsayable clarity of what we had thought to forget."—Robert Creeley
"Is melancholy good? I think Ben Friedlander has the moodiest ear for it in the field, and wit to match. Where he takes this immodest gift is to a tangled interstice where idiom intersects with the body's fault lines. Uncannily the reader has almost had these thoughts. The attraction feels sideways, vertiginous. We receive, with these poems, the shapeliness of tact. Then suddenly he shows us the tax we pay to Rome."—Lisa Robertson
"As a poet, scholar, editor, and translator, Benjamin Friedlander has dedicated more than half a lifetime to rigorously engaging with the concepts and practices of contemporary poetry, and this much-wished-for book provides a beginning survey of that commitment. Gathered here are poems from the first ten years of his wide-ranging, critically probing, and intellectually ambitious poetic project. This book will amaze, defy, and remind again how not to be made complacent by what poetry offers."—Alan Gilbert
Author Bio
Benjamin Friedlander is a poet, editor, and scholar. His books of poetry include ONE HUNDRED ETUDES (Edge Books, 2012), Citizen Cain (Salt Publishing, 2011) and THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES (Subpress, 2007). He is also the author of Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (University Alabama Press, 2004) and the editor, most recently, of Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, 1945-2005 (University of California Press, 2008). Since 1999, he has taught American literature and poetics at the University of Maine.
Author City: BANGOR, ME USA