The Math Campers: Poems

by Dan Chiasson

Book Overview

A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet.

The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593317742
• ISBN13: 9780593317747
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.4"