Love training : selected poems, 2000-2020 /
The poems in Love Training are intimate in focus and scale. Taut and contemplative, they ruminate on family, exile, romantic love and the vagaries of human perception. Love Training, which gathers poems from several of Andrés Neuman's books into a single unified collection, is divided into thre...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Dallas :
Phoneme Media, an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | The poems in Love Training are intimate in focus and scale. Taut and contemplative, they ruminate on family, exile, romantic love and the vagaries of human perception. Love Training, which gathers poems from several of Andrés Neuman's books into a single unified collection, is divided into three sections. The first, the titular "Love Training," focuses on family (and its history), loss, relationships, love and a sense of anchoring in the world. The second, "Fictions of Sight," are associated with questions of perception, perspective and creativity. And the third, "I Don't Know Why," which is the first phrase of every poem in the section, is a whimsical set of interconnected poems that ask unanswered questions. It serves as a kind of coda to the book. While Andrés Neuman is a celebrated and widely translated novelist, he is also a lucid, sensitive, incisive and quite prolific poet. Love Training is the first English translation of his poetry. |
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| Physical Description: | 141 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781646052684 1646052684 |