Poetry. Edited by Ester Sobin, Andrew Joron, Andrew Zawacki, and Edward Foster. "Gustaf Sobin's poems, whose principal heaven is a dawn field in Provence, have always traced a path to the Absolute. His work, which finally must be ranked with that of Celan and René Char, causes language to exceed its own condition. Here, words find their true home in exile, a caesura accurately, & exquisitely, measured in lines indistinguishable from musical notation. Indeed, Sobin plucks a music beyond hearing from the strands of a fallen world, & so perfects the art of making 'manifest omissions'"—Andrew Joron.
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Gustaf Sobin is sui generis, one of the deep figures of recent times. He is one of our dark and scintillating stars, his poetry a gift to our art now when there is a dearth of beauty and of myriadness of intelligence. --Michael McClure
I can't think of anyone in our time who has trod the via negativa so determinedly and with such purpose. The texture of the ground, but also the grain of what lies beneath it. And so, the miracle, as Oppen would say, that there is a music in all this, in all this nothing, our brief glimpse. --Michael Palmer
The expatriate American poet Gustaf Sobin is a national treasure. --Rain Taxi
I can't think of anyone in our time who has trod the via negativa so determinedly and with such purpose. The texture of the ground, but also the grain of what lies beneath it. And so, the miracle, as Oppen would say, that there is a music in all this, in all this nothing, our brief glimpse. --Michael Palmer
The expatriate American poet Gustaf Sobin is a national treasure. --Rain Taxi
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A native of Boston and a graduate of Brown University, Gustaf Sobin made his home in a small village in southern France for the last four decades of his life. His many books of poetry, including Voyaging Portraits, By The Bias Of Sound, and In the Name of the Neither are among the most celebrated of our time. He died in 2005.
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The author of three poetry books--Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002)--Andrew Zawacki is coeditor of Verse magazine and of The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse, 2005). He edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine, 1999) and has edited and cotranslated Slovenian writer Aleš Debeljak's Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems (Persea, 2011). His translation of French poet Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck.
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A pick for anyone who can't get enough of poetry,
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This review is from: Collected Poems (Perfect Paperback)
Sometimes you don't seek to write on a general theme, just write for the sake of writing. "Collected Poems" is a massive collection from Gustaf Sobin as he collects his life's work on the subject in a single half-thousand page tome. A great variety of work, "Collected Poems" is a pick for anyone who can't get enough of poetry. "Psalmodic": knelt there, in that/knuckle of/rock. nothing's/less than the word, brittle/as//crumbs, not/even the wind, what's/rising-- gentian -- just now,/be-//fore you.
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