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The Word We Used For It
Wisconsin Poetry Series
By (author)
Max Garland
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Poetry by individual poets
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Synopsis
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley
In these poems Max Garland confesses, even revels in, the fabricated nature of memory. He links personal and localized patterns (fingerprints, plowed fields) to the motions animating the insides of atoms and the unfurling of remote galaxies. Back on earth, the poems honor the decidedly homespun quality of grit-how creatures both animal and human bear up in the face of mounting odds against them. Garland suggests that imagination itself requires grit, to be called upon when the more spectacular angels are otherwise occupied. New & Used
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Somewhere between the joyous ecstasies of Rumi and the sweet and sometimes doleful observations of Whitman, there's a spot on the continuum of poetry where Max Garland sits and says his luscious, witty, remarkable poems. He gives us the it at the heart of existence, which for all but the finest of artists is all-too-often unreachable."" - Robert Wrigley
""Each poem is a gift of seeing, a gift of reflection, a mirror for the holy. We, as readers, get to taste what language can do when it melts into our tongues, flavors our lives."" - Kao Kalia Yangauthor of The Late Homecomer
"There is no mistaking Garland's voice. His lines move like music, a slow love song to what is important to him."-Wisconsin People and Ideas
""Each poem is a gift of seeing, a gift of reflection, a mirror for the holy. We, as readers, get to taste what language can do when it melts into our tongues, flavors our lives."" - Kao Kalia Yangauthor of The Late Homecomer
"There is no mistaking Garland's voice. His lines move like music, a slow love song to what is important to him."-Wisconsin People and Ideas