Inquest

Inquest - Paperback

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Inquest

Inquest - Paperback

by Michael McGriff
$20.52
Sale price  $20.52 Regular price 

Book Overview

"A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan."-Billy Collins

Michael McGriff's book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda's posthumous masterpiece The Book of Questions. Each sentence is rendered as an unanswerable query, be that a consideration of poverty, aesthetics, place, Ezra Pound's Chinese translations, the absurdity of everyday life, the exhumed body of Pablo Neruda, or the sanctity of common objects. Deeply surreal and humane, this collection centers unknowing and wonder as twin forces central to self-articulation, social witnessing, and survival.
ISBN9781945680830
Author Michael McGriff
PublisherWhite Pine Press (NY)
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages100
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Michael McGriff

Michael McGriff's books include Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection; Dismantling the Hills; a translation of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010); and an edition of David Wevill's essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his work has been recognized with a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. J. M. Tyree is the author of BFI Film Classics: Salesman, and the coauthor, with Ben Walters, of BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski, from the British Film Institute. His writing on cinema has been published in Sight & Sound, The Believer, and Film Quarterly. A former Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, he currently works as an associate editor of New England Review.

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