James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems (eBook)

Baron Wormser (Autor)

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2026
110 Seiten
Slant Books (Verlag)
978-1-63982-219-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Thecapstone of a distinguished literary career, James Baldwin Smoking aCigarette and Other Poems is Baron Wormsers eleventh book of poetry. Itspeaks to matters that have haunted and obsessed the author for alifetimeespecially the ways that a finite poem can intersect with theinfinitude of being.Thebookis arranged like a work of fiction, with titled chapters and with single poemsof a personal nature standing between each chaptera thread woven throughoutthe book. Each chapter reflects themes of longstanding concern: the duality ofmasculine and feminine, political history, literary progenitors, propheticvoices, and the ways people struggle with the circumstances in which they findthemselves.ThePolish poet Adam Zagajewski once noted that poetry is an impossible art. Inthis collection, Baron Wormser reflects on what he has learned about that artover the course of a lifetimean inspiring but also chastening experience.Poetry is useful in giving complexity its due, the author says, because we live in anage of drastic reductionism, characterized by violent rhetoric, blindpartisanship, and outright lyingforces that militate against imaginativereflection and the empathy that can grow out of that reflection. Here are poemsthat seek to braid thought and feelingthis but also thatpoemsthat register the thrill of being but also linger and provoke, long aftertheyve been read.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2026
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Schlagworte: atomic bomb • Blues • classic movies • Herman Melville • James Baldwin • King Lear • monologues • Ophelia • Pandemic • villanelle
• ISBN-10: 1-63982-219-4 / 1639822194
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63982-219-5 / 9781639822195