After

Poetry. Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2016. With a naturalist's precision, a subtle sense of the way the line pushes its music against silence, and with great emotional restraint, the poet of AFTER studies the world--the spathes of skunk cabbage, windfall apples--and finds there the lineaments of grief, a lexicon for his own nearly unbearable loss. But it's no accident this book opens with a poem to Keats, who understood that beauty which carries the news of sorrow is still beauty, still a source of joy. AFTER is an artfully made, intelligent and aching embodiment of a question that can't be answered: is the lovely persistence of the world a source of consolation or of deeper grief?--Mark Doty

• | Author: Robert Gibb
• | Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 98 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0996427562
• | ISBN-13: 9780996427562