Into It Poems

Name: Into It Poems
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ISBN: 9780374530570

ISBN-10: 0374530572

ISBN-13: 9780374530570

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Authors: Lawrence Joseph

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Strikingly contemporary new work by an acclaimed poet Into It, Lawrence Joseph's fourth book of poems, is as bold a book as any in American poetry today-an attempt to give voice to the extremes of American reality in the time since, as Joseph puts it, "the game changed." Joseph's first three books dramatized the challenge of maintaining one's self in a world in the hold of dehumanizing forces. The new book finds him in a time and place where "the immense enlargement / of our perspectives is confronted / by a reduction of our powers of action"-where the word "wargame" is a verb and "the weight of violence / is unparalleled in the history / of the species." Along the New York waterfront, on…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



In It, Into It, Inside It, Down In


When One Is Feeling One's Way


The Bronze-Green Gold-Green Foreground


I Note in a Notebook


Inclined to Speak


The Pattern-Parallel Map or Graph


Woodward Avenue


On That Side


What Do You Mean, What?


August Abstract


Why Not Say What Happens?


In a Mood


Unyieldingly Present


News Back Even Further Than That


Rubaiyat


Metamorphoses (After Ovid)


What Is There to Understand?


A Year Ago This June


In the Shape of Fate over My Father's Birth


The Single Necessity


History for Another Time


That Too


The Game Changed


Once Again