Be With

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 beencalled 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."

• | Author: Forrest Gander
• | Publisher: New Directions
• | Publication Date: August 28, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0811226050
• | ISBN-13: 9780811226059