Publication

2021 - Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Language

English

Word Count

29,250 words, Guess

Page Count

117 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780811230896
  • ISBN-100811230899
  • Library of Congress Control Number2021001830
  • OCLC Control Number1201298221
  • Better World Books9780811230896
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Classifications

  • LCCPS3566.A54L58 2021
  • LCCPS3566.A54 L58 2021

Description

"Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents searingly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Poetry Society of America's Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: "When I think of 'possible worlds,' I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.""--

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