{"product_id":"toward-the-distant-islands-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSam Hamill\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth [is] one of the lasting literary signatures of our time.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth...contains multitudes.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth is a people's poet... a virtuoso of form.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \"portable Carruth\" gathers new poems with the essential works from a major American poet. Included are lyrics, short narratives, comic, meditative, and erotic poems that engage politics, music, rural poverty, and the cultural responsibility of artists. As Sam Hamill writes in the introduction: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth's great body of work is a world... Like the jazz he so loves, his poetry ranges from the formal to the spontaneous, from local vernacular to righteous oratory, from beautiful complexity to elegant understatement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"A Few Dilapidated Arias\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Our crumbling civilization\"-a phrase I have used often\u003cbr\u003e during recent years, in letters to friends, even in\u003cbr\u003e words for public print. And what does it mean? \u003c\/i\u003eCan\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e a civilization crumble? At once appears the image\u003cbr\u003e of an old slice of bread, stale and hard, green with mold, \u003cbr\u003e shaped roughly like the northeastern United States, years\u003cbr\u003e old or more, so hard and foul that even my pal Maxie, \u003cbr\u003e the shepherd\/husky cross who eats everything, won't\u003cbr\u003e touch it. And it is crumbling, turning literally into\u003cbr\u003e crumbs, as the millions of infinitesimal internal connecting\u003cbr\u003e fibers sever and loosen. The dust trickles and seeps away.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/b\u003e, a longtime resident of Vermont, currently lives in upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. His many honors include the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Carruth is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies, and has held fellowships from the Bollingen, Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, as well as the NEA. His many awards include the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lenore Marshall\/The Nation Award. Poet and translator Sam Hamill was the Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and is currently the Director for Poets Against War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.56 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56149069889841,"sku":"9781556592362","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/wHi8kQAxgh9781556592362.webp?v=1788685412","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/toward-the-distant-islands-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}