Be With

Forrest Gander

Be With
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Published
21 September 2018
Pages
80
ISBN
9780811226059

Be With

Forrest Gander

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section - a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s - rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation.

Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.    

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