Reel to Reel - Phoenix Poets
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Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro's twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate mysteries. In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226110639 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 21 Mar 2014 |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | ix, 77 |
Weight: | 134g |
Height: | 142mm |
Width: | 217mm |
Spine width: | 8mm |