The Promises of Glass is New Directions' third book by Michael Palmer, acclaimed as the most significant experimental American poet of his generation. The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook," "The Promises of Glass," "Q," "Four Kitaj Studies," "Five Easy Poems," "In an X," and "Tower." These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies." His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban world of late twentieth-century America."
- ISBN10 0811214435
- ISBN13 9780811214438
- Publish Date 8 May 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English