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Poetry. With The Ethical Reach Of George Oppen Or Etel Adnan, But With A Scope And Feel All His Own--and Now, Because He Gave It To Us, Ours Too--nicholas Gulig Takes Stock Of Our World Of War And Forced Migration, Our World Of Wanderers We Only Know Of And Feel Nonetheless. 'so What To Do About It?' He Asks. 'it's Beginning To Feel A Lot Like I'm At Fault For Something Far Away.' Yes. It's Been Feeling That Way Since We First Woke Up And Found Ourselves No Longer Children, Because The War Began, Or The Towers Fell, Or Because We Speak A Language And Are An Empire. How, Then, To Find Our Way Into And Remain In Love With Those Who Are Near And Those Who Are Not, And Remain There, Unflinching, Awake? Poetry Is A Way, Poetry Like This--quiet And Sudden And Forgiving And Strong. Read Not For Solace, But For Love.--julie Carr In Orient, We Are Immersed, Immediately, In The Way These Poems Both Quietly Astound And Articulate The 'vital Emptiness' Of What Disturbs And Is Absorbed In Hint And Hue Through Transcription, Collage, And Other Practices Of Memory's Recollection And Erasure, Admiring Along The Way The Speaker's Effort To Illustrate How A Field Between Polarities 'begins To Open O

Author

Gulig, Nicholas, author

Publisher

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center; Berkeley, California: Distributed by SPD/Small Press Distribution, Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780996316781

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.5 / 5 (318 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14