{"title":"Forrest Gander","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"your-nearness-paperback","title":"Your Nearness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Forrest Gander knows that the poet's first duty is \"to see what's there and not already patterned by familiarity\" - and in \u003ci\u003eYour Nearness\u003c\/i\u003e he brings to that task a combination of vision, generosity of spirit and humility in the face of wonder that singles him out as one of the finest, and most vigilant, poets working in English today.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Burnside\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Nearness\u003c\/i\u003e is the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander's most recent collection, and his first to be published in the UK. Throughout the book, in poems of emotional intensity, delicacy and tenderness, Gander addresses the relationship of the personal and the environmental; the opening poems link human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens, while some later poems focus on the emotional and ecological trauma resulting from the devastating wildfires in California where the poet lives. This is a collection that illuminates the tangled interrlations that bind us to others and the natural world, celebratory in tone and charged with exultation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForrest Gander is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. In 2017, he was elected as a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets and in 2019, he was awarded The Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He taught at Providence College and at Harvard University before becoming the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378337054943,"sku":"9781910345955","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MB66fGhsYJ9781910345955.webp?v=1789254433"},{"product_id":"mojave-ghost-paperback","title":"Mojave Ghost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMojave Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never sidesteps the wholeness of experience, Gander's new collection discovers an articulate language for the merging of exterior and interior landscapes. Gander, trained as a geologist, walked along much of the 800-mile San Andreas fault toward the desolate town of his birth, and found himself crossing permeable dimensions of time and space, correlating his emotions and the stricken landscape with other divisions: the fractures and folds underlying not only our country, but any self in its relationship with others. The result is this moving new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey. With its confidential tones and candid self-examination, \u003cem\u003eMojave Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e is Gander's most inviting and poignant book yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378500534495,"sku":"9780811237956","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/V8inFlvdtE9780811237956.webp?v=1789257915"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/forrest-gander.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}