How to Do Things With Tears

Allen Grossman

How to Do Things With Tears
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Published
22 June 2001
Pages
98
ISBN
9780811214643

How to Do Things With Tears

Allen Grossman

The award-winning poet’s newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman’s newest poetic work. This is a how-to book, Grossman explains. The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A new singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world. Like the blind bard of old, Grossman’s Sighted Singer conjures visions both high and low, in mythopoetic resonances that excite the sorrows and the laughter of the gods and men.

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