Ithaca
IthacaPoems
Author(s): David Lehman
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA, United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
ISBN-13: 9781641775113, 978-1641775113
Synopsis
Ithaca consists of sixty sonnets divided into two equal parts, Ithaca and Gifts Reserved for Age. In Homers Odyssey, Ithaca is the island home to which the hero returns after twenty years of war and perilous adventures. In Lehmans Ithaca sequence, two phrases are strategically repeated, with variations: Happy the man who . . . and What did he believe in?
In Gifts Reserved for Age, the restless traveler continues to recollect and make sense of his life. Ultimate questions are raised: Does God exist? Can art redeem reality and not just contrive ways to escape from it? What are the compensatory gifts that accompany growing old?
Lehman, who has resided for many years in Ithaca, New York, does inventive things with the sonnet as a form and the sonnet sequence as the organizing principle of a unified book. R.
Ithaca
IthacaPoems
Author(s): David Lehman
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA, United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
ISBN-13: 9781641775113, 978-1641775113
Synopsis
Ithaca consists of sixty sonnets divided into two equal parts, Ithaca and Gifts Reserved for Age. In Homers Odyssey, Ithaca is the island home to which the hero returns after twenty years of war and perilous adventures. In Lehmans Ithaca sequence, two phrases are strategically repeated, with variations: Happy the man who . . . and What did he believe in?
In Gifts Reserved for Age, the restless traveler continues to recollect and make sense of his life. Ultimate questions are raised: Does God exist? Can art redeem reality and not just contrive ways to escape from it? What are the compensatory gifts that accompany growing old?
Lehman, who has resided for many years in Ithaca, New York, does inventive things with the sonnet as a form and the sonnet sequence as the organizing principle of a unified book. R.
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IthacaPoems
Author(s): David Lehman
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA, United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
ISBN-13: 9781641775113, 978-1641775113
Synopsis
Ithaca consists of sixty sonnets divided into two equal parts, Ithaca and Gifts Reserved for Age. In Homers Odyssey, Ithaca is the island home to which the hero returns after twenty years of war and perilous adventures. In Lehmans Ithaca sequence, two phrases are strategically repeated, with variations: Happy the man who . . . and What did he believe in?
In Gifts Reserved for Age, the restless traveler continues to recollect and make sense of his life. Ultimate questions are raised: Does God exist? Can art redeem reality and not just contrive ways to escape from it? What are the compensatory gifts that accompany growing old?
Lehman, who has resided for many years in Ithaca, New York, does inventive things with the sonnet as a form and the sonnet sequence as the organizing principle of a unified book. R.
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