Survival Is a Style: Poems

ISBN: 0374539332

Author: Wiman, Christian

Condition: Used

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary SupplementSurvival Is a Style, Christian Wimans first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet.His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poets father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary.Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.