Eye Against Eye

Gander, Forrest

ISBN 10: 0811216357 / ISBN 13: 9780811216357

Published by New Directions, 2005

About this Item

Near fine copy with sight shelf wear. Inscribed to Myra. Light dealer pencil markings, easily erasable.

Provenance: acquired in Rockville, Maryland with a large group of poetry chapbooks, some explicitly inscribed to or annotated as ?Myra Sklarew.? Given the local context (Rockville/MD) and multiple comparanda from the same lot, the recipient of this copy is presumed to be the poet Myra Sklarew, though the inscription in this volume reads only ?Myra.? Photo of the inscription is provided. Light dealer pencil markings, easily erasable.

Seller Inventory # P1028

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eye Against Eye
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811216357
• ISBN 13: 9780811216357
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Sally Mann
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

"Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation" (Mark Rudman).

The three long poems in Eye Against Eye convey the wrought particulars of intimate human relations, perceptions of the landscape, and the historical moment, tense with political exigencies. Mayan ruins invoke the collapsing Twin Towers, love between parents and child blister with tension, and a bicycle thief shatters the narcotic illusion of a private accord. Also contained is "Late Summer Entry," a series of poetic commentaries on Sally Mann's landscape photographs. Eye Against Eye, Forrest Gander's third book with New Directions, cries out an ethical concern for the ways we see each other and the world, the potential to share a vision that acknowledges our commonality. As always with Gander's poetry, suspensions and repetitions drive toward a complex emotional experience, evoking the multifaceted, multi-vocal surge of our present.

About the Author

Forrest Gander is the author of six books of poetry, various articles of literary criticism, and numerous translations. Besides winning a fellowship from the NEA, he has been the recipient of various awards including The Whiting Award, two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Writing, a Pushcart Prize, and the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. He is presently Director of the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature.