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Author: Allen GrossmanPublisher: New Directions
Edition Description: IllustratedISBN-10: 0811214648
Category: POETRYISBN-13: 9780811214643
 --Format: Softcover
 --Publication Year: 2001
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The poems in this poet's ninth volume are told in the voice of a heroic singer, with a twist. Instead of drawing on the example of the blind poet Homer, Grossman insists that today's singer must be sighted, and thus this collection is intoned by Grossman's own Sighted Singer. Grossman is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim awards.

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Series:New Directions Paperbook, 912

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Length:98 pages
Height:9.0 in.
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The award-winning poet's newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman's newest poetic work. "This is a how-to book," Grossman explains. "The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A new singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world." Like the blind bard of old, Grossman's Sighted Singer conjures visions both high and low, in mythopoetic resonances that excite the sorrows and the laughter of the gods and men.

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"Each book that Grossman has published since THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE OVER THE CHICAGO RIVER has been more ambitious, more weighty, more cacophonous than the one before it, and HOW TO DO THINGS WITH TEARS is his wildest creation yet. It contains enough subject matter for ten books of poems, including moments of heartbreaking sorrow--moments rendered in the quietly luminous idiom that Grossman first perfected in "THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE."
Boston Review - James Longenbach 


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How to Do Things with Tears: A Book of Poems

Allen Grossman

Book Notes: New Directions Paperbook #912: How to Do Things with Tears
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0811214648
Publication Date: 2001-05
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Pages: 112
Height: 0.3600 inches
Width: 5.9600 inches
Weight: 0.3800 pounds

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