Be with, paperback/forrest gander

Contributor(s): Author: Forrest Gander 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.

border with Mexico.

The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Ganders efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimers--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.

  Review citations Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - 10/01/2018 Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - 10/01/2018 Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - 10/01/2018 Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - 10/01/2018 Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - 10/01/2018.