Math Campers
Poems
$43.39
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
21 December 2020
Summary
A father and husband’s meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet.
The poet’s art is revealed in stages in this “making-of” book, where we watch as poems take shape—first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem “Must We Mean What We Say,” a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593317747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593317742 |
| Author: | Dan Chiasson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 21 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 149mm |
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Critics Review
“I was immediately drawn into a collaborative experience in which writer and reader make meaning together. Chiasson’s lyrical ruminations can take the form of a ‘choose your own adventure,’ but the poet skillfully guides his reader through the inner workings of his imagination and ultimately asks her to ‘step away from the screen’ so that ‘together we will ponder who imagined whom.’ These intricately crafted poems unfold like ‘nested dreams’ and center on timeless themes of identity and mortality.” —Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Whether he’s writing about art or parenthood, Chiasson pirouettes between the sublime and the comic.” —Anthony Domestico, Commonweal
“Meditative … Invites the reader to witness the poet’s processes of creation, retrieval, and revision as a writer and dreamer, father and son … These beautifully crafted poems are a memorable addition to Chiasson’s singular oeuvre.” —Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Dan Chiasson
DAN CHIASSON is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently Bicentennial, and a book of criticism, One Kind of Everything- Poem and Person in Contemporary America. He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writers Award, Chiasson is the Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English at Wellesley College, and lives in Massachussetts.
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