Grossman, Allen

Descartes’ Loneliness by Allen Grossman (English) Paperback Book

A new, breakthrough collection by “one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets” (Harold Bloom). As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is “remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death.”.

Of the Great House: Poetry by Allen Grossman (English) Paperback Book

Of the Great House, which includes sections of A Harlot’s Hire (1961), Grossman’s first published book, as well as his most recent poetry, presents an anatomy of the poet’s working life. “The Dream Which Wakes the Sleeper Does Not End” contains poems from an earlier life, and Of the Great House closes with “An Inventory of Destructions,” a summing and a summoning: “the poet speaks to the unborn in the/language of the born, and to the born he speaks/The language of the unborn–Break down and build!

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