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Capacity: Poems (Hardcover)
by James McMichael (Author)
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McMichael's calm, smart verse essays and poetic narratives attracted critical acclaim, if never a broad following, during the 1980s; his sixth book (the first since 1996's The World at Large: New and Selected) pursues its intellectual ambition with renewed attention and verve, and comprises just seven poems. The lead poem, "The British Countryside in Pictures," provides a frame for the whole, placing the story of Britain's evacuee children (sent from cities to farmland during the Blitz) within contexts from economic history and geology to the beginnings of one child's life. From details and antecedents within this story (perhaps, though McMichael does not specify, the story of his own family) derive the other topics here: the horrors of the Irish potato famine; reproductive science; how we make judgments; how we become ourselves amid the overlapping determinants of social class, locale, memory, biology. "Capacity is both how/ much a thing holds and how/ much it can do," McMichael explains in the title poem, and his work proves capacious in both respects. (Apr.)
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"With brilliance and precision, James McMichael draws us into intimate exchanges . . . By attending so thoroughly to what is of the world, McMichael gives the underlying and unspeakable power of mystery its rightful place." --Killarney Clary
 
"Simply the best poetry I have read in years from an American poet . . . This is deeply mature and rewarding work and I am a better person and reader for having read it." --Gerald Early


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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 88 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 21, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0374118906
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374118907
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 customer reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #985,936 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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