Timothy Donnelly

The Problem of the Many (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'The best collection I've read in ages: every poem contains something unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious and bold work - the kind of poetry you hope to find, and rarely do' - Nick Laird

John Ashbery called Timothy Donnelly's previous collection, The Cloud Corporation, 'The poetry of the future, here today'. The Problem of the Many sees Donnelly, one of the most influential poets of his generation, focused less on the future than the end of history: these richly textured and intellectually capacious poems often seem to attempt nothing less than a circumscription of the totality of human experience. The book contains the already widely praised 'Hymn to Life', which opens with a litany of what we have made extinct; elsewhere, from an immediately contemporary vantage, Donnelly confronts the clutter and devastation that civilization has left us as he strives towards a beauty that we still need, along the way enlisting agents as various as Prometheus, Jonah, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, NyQuil, Nietzsche, and Alexander the Great.

The Problem of the Many refers to the famous philosophical problem of what defines the larger aggregate - a cloud, a crowd - which Donnelly extends to address the subject of individual boundary, identity and belonging. Donnelly's solutions may be wholly poetic, but he has succeeded in speaking as deeply to these profound and urgent issues as any writer currently at work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529041255
• Artikelnr.: 59806121

Autorenporträt

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many; The Cloud Corporation, which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit. He is a recipient of The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
1. The Stars Down to Earth Prometheus Stunt All Through the War The Endless
Apologies from the Ground Up Unlimited Soup and Salad Diet Mountain Dew
Solvitur Ambulando Fascination Malamute Gifted The Problem of the Many
2. Arrows from the Sun Job By Night with Torch and Spear Wasted Shame
Nebuchadnezzar A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches Chemical Life
The Radiance of a Thousand Suns All the Shrimp I Can Eat Golden Lunch in a
Town Named After a Company Slowly Poisoning Its Residents After Callimachus
3. The Earth Itself Happiness Hymn to Edmund Albius Escape into Time
Traveler Jonah The Death of Print Culture The Death of the Author The Death
of Truth November Paraphrase NyQuil Leviathan Mutual Life
4. Lycopodium Obscurum Lapis Lazuli Levitation Some Comforts at the Expense
of Others Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake Poem on a Stair Poem Written with
a Pinecone in My Hand Poem Written with an Arrowhead in My Mouth Flamin'
Hot Cheetos The Lighthouse of Alexandria Roof Burning Lichen from a Bronze
Age Megalith Insomnia Hymn to Life