Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005

Warsh, Lewis

ISBN 10: 1887123784 / ISBN 13: 9781887123785

Published by Granary Books, 2008

212 pages. 8.50x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1887123784

Synopsis:

Inseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, Warsh makes poems from the city’s linguistic fabric, interwoven with a bemused real-time interiority. The 35 poems of this collection are pitted with reminiscences made approachable to the reader by their lack of self-absorption; it is the momentum of the will to persist by means of language--“moving, word by word”--against the incipient flickerings of mortality, that is their real logic. This act of self-propulsion may be subject to doubt (“Can we spend our lives feeding/off simple endurance?”), but it is humbly pursued: Warsh resists the inflated rhetoric such preoccupations usually attract and sticks instead with (in the words of his colleague Clark Coolidge) “confusion, in strict order.”

Bibliographic Details

Title: Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005
Publisher: Granary Books
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New