Be with

by Forrest Gander

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226050
• ISBN13: 9780811226059
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"