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Book Title
Storm Swimmer
Publication Name
Storm Swimmer
Title
Storm Swimmer
Author
Ernest Hilbert
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9781574418958
ISBN
9781574418958
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Genre
Poetry
Release Date
28/02/2023
Release Year
2023
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
229mm
Item Length
9in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
Series
Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Publication Year
2023
Topic
General
Item Width
6in
Number of Pages
90 Pages

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In poems celebrating survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters, Hilbert's eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water--what Melville called "the ungraspable phantom of life." His poems return again and again to rivers, lakes, and the sea, there to find "a universe that loves the dark," one that "bears you up as if you had no weight."

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Publisher
University of North Texas Press
ISBN-10
1574418955
ISBN-13
9781574418958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22058374643

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Book Title
Storm Swimmer
Author
Ernest Hilbert
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
90 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz

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Series Volume Number
30
Lc Classification Number
Ps3608.I4175s76 2023
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"Ernest Hilbert's Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. In Hilbert we encounter the poet as allegorical realist: a seer who has 'known beauty almost impossible / To believe, nearly always lost amid / All the usual distractions.' This is a rare book both willing and able to capture the wide and relentless range of the human condition, in its varying lights and shadows, and in settings spanning the mundane, the tawdry, and the sublime. Storm Swimmer is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives."-- Rowan Ricardo Phillips , author of Heaven and judge "In Storm Swimmer , fatherhood is neither one-dimensional nor short-sighted; instead, fatherhood is a nexus, rigged with grace and curiosity--an enduring gift for a son and for readers. Toggling between the natural world and the relentless spectacle of contemporary life, acutely aware of the passage of time, Ernest Hilbert's poems are marvelously built, resonant."-- Eduardo C. Corral , author of Guillotine: Poems "Ernest Hilbert has always written from the ragged edge between tradition and the present moment, and now he goes for a deeper immersion, a swimmer in life, aware of its most desperate and beautiful currents. The sea has taught him to ride out the detritus of existence, to see it but not be consumed by it, and his forms give spine to his vision. Storm Swimmer is his strongest book so far, urgent and real."-- David Mason , author of Pacific Light "Ernest Hilbert's ambitious book Storm Swimmer --it includes epigraphs in Greek from Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes--is a meditation on fatherhood and on the human legacy bequeathed to a young son, culminating in a poem appropriately indebted to Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight." But this tender domesticity also achieves a pelagic reach, as the collection begins and ends with ocean swimming. The fact that one of its maritime settings is Corson's Inlet on the New Jersey shore, where poet A. R. Ammons revolutionized the relation between thought and poetic line in a way that sparked Projectivism, is indicative too of the verbal and formal resourcefulness of this collection. And its cultural range is no less wide--from Mozart's K. 265 or Fauré's Requiem to a Heavy Metal tribute night."-- Karl Kirchwey , author of The Engrafted Word
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-045936
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220926

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