Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman

Harrison, Joseph

ISBN 10: 1904130984 / ISBN 13: 9781904130987

Published by The Waywiser Press, 2020

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Synopsis:

In his sixth book of poems Joseph Harrison further refines his already agile art. His characteristic metrical and syntactic ingenuity are on display here again, as is the surprising capacity of his figurative imagination. Poems in a variety of forms, some elaborate and nonce, display a range of mood, mode, and matter: there are political poems, ekphrastic poems, poems on the metaphoric implications of scientific terms. At the heart of the book, though, is an astonishing advance in Harrisons explorations of intertextuality: these poems risk a kind of poetic shamanism, a lyric ventriloquism that channels the voices of precursors American and English. The uncannily resonant music that results is both his and theirs, contemporary and traditional, idiosyncratic and familiar. Joseph Harrison has written a book that challenges our notions of poetic identity, a book where the present and the past sing to each other, and to the future.

About the Author: Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His first book of poems, SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME (Waywiser, 2003), was chosen as one of five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post. He was awarded an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. A second book of poetry, IDENTITY THEFT, was published by Waywiser in 2008. SHAKESPEARE'S HORSE (Waywiser Press, 2015) is his most recent work. In 2009 Harrison received a fellowship in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, Carla Harrison.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman
Publisher: The Waywiser Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: paperback
Condition: Like New