Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
Be with
by Forrest Gander
Summary
Written after the death of his wife, the poet C. D. Wright, the book moves through grief by way of geology, ecology, and the borderlands between languages. Gander's diction is rugged and precise, drawing on the vocabulary of the earth to register fractures in the self. The poems hold loss alongside continued attention to landscape, kinship, and the porous boundary between bodies and ground.
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Historical Context & Significance
Gander uses the "syntax of the earth" to describe the fractures in the human heart.