Sojourners of the In-Between (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series) - Softcover

Djanikian, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887486525 ISBN 13: 9780887486524

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Sojourners of the In-Between is a book about polarities, the mortality and sense of loss we feel as we grow older, and, on the other hand, the enlivening perceptions our years attune us to, what we might have missed in the full flush and energy of youth. In tones that are sometimes discursive and lyrical, humorous and elegiac, the poems suggest how large distances and abstractions might incline us more intensely to the materiality of things, their earthly make-up, even their dispersible elemental natures reshuffling into different guises. It’s a book of longing for what disappears and is lost, and a book of thankfulness for our human capacity to sometimes sense what we often can only imagine.

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About the Author

Gregory Djanikian has published six previous collections of poems with Carnegie Mellon, most recently Dear Gravity. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have been featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was for many years the director of creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives outside Philadelphia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887486525
• ISBN 13: 9780887486524
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96