{"id":16118,"date":"2020-03-26T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/product\/be-with-paperback-august-28-2018\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T03:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:03:31","slug":"be-with-paperback-august-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/?product=be-with-paperback-august-28-2018","title":{"rendered":"Be With"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16118 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/?attachment_id=16119'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41nEnSHIJoL._SS150_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/?attachment_id=16120'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/alienterpriseltd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51aLi%2BP-c7L._SS150_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<!-- show up to 2 reviews by default -->                              <\/p>\n<h3>Review<\/h3>\n<div data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"300\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none;height: 300px\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 17px\">\n<p>\u201cGander\u2019s verses have a shattering, symphonic quality, but he uses poetry to locate and dislocate at once, pushing against the borders of meaning or pitching his camp where language estranges itself from sense.&nbsp;There are dazzling fragments, unraveling syntax, poems that, in their ghostliness, also force us to be alert to our own fragile lives.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong>Tess Taylor, <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Be&nbsp;With&nbsp;<\/em>charts the addled chronology of personal loss. Poetry often creates a supernatural-seeming rapport&nbsp;with&nbsp;the dead, but rarely has the communication between worlds felt so eerily reciprocal.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong>Dan Chiasson, <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife, death, and every minor phenomenon in between feels more vivid in Gander\u2019s heartbreaking work.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong><em>Publishers Weekly (starred)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtterly naked and bereft, elegies, apologies, could-have-beens, Gander grieves and wonders about what&#8217;s left in his life.&nbsp;Reading this book may hurt, but it will help people to keep living through what they thought they could never survive.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong>Craig Morgan Teicher, <em>NPR<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Gander\u2019s philosophical strain and flamboyant lingo suggest Wallace Stevens, and his conversance with science and his stress on the \u2018ongoing\u2019 recall A. R. Ammons, he insinuates a knotty, digressive intensity that is fully his own.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong><em>Bookforum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA complex reading experience punctuated by intense beauty.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong><em>Washington Post Book World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGander\u2019s love for formal, even archaic language and the quiet complexity of his syntax can build striking abstract landscapes in which the material and spiritual worlds seem equally intelligent.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong><em>American Poetry Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWritten in the wake of this loss,&nbsp;<em>Be With<\/em>&nbsp;breaks form to render Gander\u2019s own brokenness, leaving gaps in the middle of lines and channeling St. John of the Cross. Gander explores his own dark night of the soul\u2015and, as a poet particularly concerned with ecology, the dark night of our natural world.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong>Anthony Domestico, <em>Commonweal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGander does not turn away from grief but dives into its awful and cathartic cascading beauty that wavers between gravity and weightlessness.\u201d<br \/> &#8211; <strong><em>Arkansas International<\/em><\/strong>                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"><a href=\"void(0)\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle=\"{&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:true, &quot;expand_prompt&quot;:&quot;Read more&quot;, &quot;collapse_prompt&quot;:&quot;Read less&quot;}\"><i class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"><\/i><span class=\"a-expander-prompt\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<div data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"300\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height:300px\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\">\n<p><strong>Forrest Gander<\/strong> was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry, he has translated works by Coral Bracho, Alfonso D\u2019Aquino, Pura Lopez-Colome, Pablo Neruda, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts &amp; Comparative Literature at Brown University.                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"><a href=\"void(0)\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle=\"{&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:true, &quot;expand_prompt&quot;:&quot;Read more&quot;, &quot;collapse_prompt&quot;:&quot;Read less&quot;}\"><i class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"><\/i><span class=\"a-expander-prompt\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDPublishers Weekly\u00a0Best Poetry Book of 2018 Forrest Gander\u2019s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy 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\u2015a moving transcription of Gander\u2019s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer\u2019s\u2015rise 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, \u201cthe most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.\u201d<br \/>\n[amz_corss_sell asin=&#8221;0811226050&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDPublishers Weekly\u00a0Best Poetry Book of 2018 Forrest Gander\u2019s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy 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\u2015a moving transcription of Gander\u2019s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer\u2019s\u2015rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. 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