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Book Title
Natural History : Poems
Publication Name
Natural History
Title
Natural History
Subtitle
Poems
Author
Dan Chiasson
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0375711155
EAN
9780375711152
ISBN
9780375711152
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Poetry
Release Date
25/09/2007
Release Year
2007
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / General
Number of Pages
88 Pages

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Dan Chiasson, hailed as "one of the most gifted poets of his generation" upon the appearance of his first book, takes inspiration for his stunning new collection from the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder. "What happens next, you won't believe," Chiasson writes in "From the Life of Gorky," and it is fair warning. This collection suggests that a person is like a world, full of mysteries and wonders-and equally in need of an encyclopedia, a compendium of everything known. The long title sequence offers entries such as "The Sun" ("There is one mind in all of us, one soul, / who parches the soil in some nations / but in others hides perpetually behind a veil"), "The Elephant" ("How to explain my heroic courtesy?"), "The Pigeon" ("Once startled, you shall feel hours of weird sadness / afterwards"), and "Randall Jarrell" ("If language hurts you, make the damage real"). The mysteriously emotional individual poems coalesce as a group to suggest that our natural world is populated not just by fascinating creatures-who, in any case, are metaphors for the human as Chiasson considers them- but also by literature, by the ghosts of past poetries, by our personal ghosts. Toward the end of the sequence, one poem asks simply, "Which Species on Earth Is Saddest?" a question this book seems poised to answer. But Chiasson is not finally defeated by the sorrows and disappointments that maturity brings. Combining a classic, often heartbreaking musical line with a playful, fresh attack on the standard materials of poetry, he makes even our sadness beguiling and beautiful.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375711155
ISBN-13
9780375711152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59069288

Product Key Features

Book Title
Natural History : Poems
Author
Dan Chiasson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
88 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Dewey Decimal
811.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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