Christopher Sawyer-Lauҫanno
Remission ISBN: 978-1-58498-121-3, paper, $16.95 |
“Vigileo ergo sum. Apercus and reflection. Gentle reader, reading this, you are alive. You have been given the gift of Remission. Gratitude, survival and sober witness of and towards a permanent immediate present.” —Simon Pettet “Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno’s new book of poetry com-presses experience and emotion into what seems at times an exclamation point of pain and yearning. It is, by turns, troubling and challenging, tough-minded and compassionate, earth-bound and learned. These poems are about the passing of time, ‘the collision between what was and what is.’ They are concerned with human limitation and aspiration, focusing on ‘the how not to be any longer.’ These poems are rooted in the world he writes about, and they soar above in breathless leaps.” —Michael Pearson Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno is the author of more than a half-dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles and E.E. Cummings, and a group portrait of American writers in Paris after World War II. He is also well-known as a translator and poet. Talisman House published an earlier book of poems, Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany, in 2013. He lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts with his wife, the poet Patricia Pruitt. |
