Metaphysical Dog
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A National Book Award Finalist
Metaphysical Dog offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work today
In adolescence, you thought your work
ancient work: to decipher at last
human beings' relation to God. Decipher
love. To make what was once whole
whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.
This "ancient work" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the "hunger for the Absolute"--a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled "History is a series of failed revelations." The result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Poetry Books
A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374534624
ISBN13:9780374534622
Release Date:May 2014
Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"
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