Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. 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." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard-Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."

About the Author
Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.


Book Information
ISBN 9780811217118
Author Allen Grossman
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 116g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm * 8mm