Anthony Carelli

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The New World: Infinitesimal EpicsPaperback, 14 September 2021

The New World: Infinitesimal Epics
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Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets
Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets, 159
Print Length
80 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
14 Sep 2021
ISBN-10
069121879X
ISBN-13
9780691218793

Description

From an "uncommonly fluent" and "rewarding" poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?

The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dante as a thread throughout. In these epics in miniature, we meet a pilgrim-poet as he awaits the arrival of his child, a would-be Columbus, on the shores of a land "disenstoried" by explorers present and past. It's a land and a people largely lost in mindscapes and mythscapes, haunted by sketchy aspirational visions, misbegotten misremembering, and emptiness. Nonetheless, the poet steps out to the shore to sing for the child--and reader--to do what Columbus never did: "land gently. / And listen and / listen and listen / and stay." Constantly unsettling the rhetoric of inherited forms, the poet shaping these poems is always bound to the pilgrim, who cannot pretend to dissolve our purgatories but can only invite us--as a latter-day Virgil would--deeper into the uncanny encounters that encircle us. From an Arizona nursing home and a grandmother's memory of a stolen golden Schwinn in the occupied Philippines, to a tale of road-tripping west through Pennsylvania as sunrise transpires in the wrong sky, The New World opens strange spaces for us to re-see, lament, and re-sing the stories we tell.

Product Details

Author:
Anthony Carelli
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
14 September 2021
Dimensions:
23.01 x 15.01 x 0.99 cm
ISBN-10:
069121879X
ISBN-13:
9780691218793
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
80
Weight:
158.76 gm

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