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ISBN-13
9781932511048
ISBN
9781932511048

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1932511040
ISBN-13
9781932511048
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30208169

Product Key Features

Book Title
Goodbye to The Orchard : Poems
Number of Pages
75 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Poetry
Author
Steven Cramer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-026023
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Table Of Content
In Steven Cramer's fourth collection of poems, we encounter a winning combination of grace, eclectic intelligence, and dryly comic self-regard. Goodbye to the Orchard is a refreshing tonic to the claustrophobia of much contemporary poetry. Cramer takes subjects that are familiar at first glance-we thought we knew all about "The Soul," a "Sixties Couple," a "Morning Walk in the Orchard," or how "Word Gets Around"-and makes them oddly affecting, weirdly fresh. Icons of high and popular culture appear in unpredictable ways (Shakespeare, Hendrix, Rin-Tin-Tin, the Marquis de Sade), so that as a whole Goodbye to the Orchard strikes an original tone-a curious, undeluded sweetness. No other poet sounds quite the same note. Cramer employs agile structures in service of ambitious themes, his work by turns brave, disarmingly funny, and adroit at symmetrical form and free-verse syncopation. At the heart of the book we encounter a sister's fatal illness, and these poems tell us of our search, especially at such last moments, to find words for what can't, ultimately, be described: "Maybe it's just a better childhood-" brother says to dying sister, "this life after death, I mean..." Moving in the extreme, such scenes are captured with unsentimental accuracy. Beginning with the word "defeat" and concluding on the word "alive," Goodbye to the Orchard testifies that we must remain open in the face of loss, because loss is a given; and that our glimpses of the mysteries-whether of dying or living-are all we're allowed. But those prismatic views, well rendered, are all we need.
Synopsis
"There isn't a page in this book that isn't bracing. . . ."--Marie Howe Beginning with the word "defeat" and concluding on the word "alive," Goodbye to the Orchard testifies that we must remain open in the face of loss, because loss is a given; and that our glimpses of the mysteries--whether of dying or living--are all we're allowed. Steven Cramer is the author of The Eye that Desires to Look Upward , The World Book , and Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand . He currently lives in Massachusetts.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.R2676G66 2004

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