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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Passing through a gate
    sub title: poems, essays, and translations
  title info:
    title: Passing through a gate (Compilation)
  name:
    name part: Balaban, John
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 257 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: John Balaban is an extraordinary writer and storyteller whose prize-winning poetry and prose are informed by a love of languages, deep scholarship, hard travel and a willingness to confront the violence and sufferings of the world. In this essential collection of his work, the best of his prize-winning poems since 1970 are collected in one place, threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban's extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam during wartime to record and translate folk poetry. The result is a remarkable story about a life in poetry. Empathetic, truth-telling and fiercely perceptive, Passing through a Gate is a literary tour de force. As Maxine Kumin reminds us, "Balaban seems to me our moral spokesperson, our lyricist, our polemicist, exhorter and consoler. In short, the poet we need.
  note: John Balaban.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  classification: PS3552.A44 P37 2024
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9781556596919
  identifier: 155659691X
  identifier: 9781619322905
  identifier: 2023039092
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231010
    record change date: 20240626165402.8
    record identifier: in00004793418