The poems in Gustaf Sobin’s newest collection, Breaths’ Burials, establish a dialogue with silence. Breath, its syllables buried in the resonant space between the word and the void, unlocks “the gloriole, the ring of things released.” Whether Sobin is writing about irises, Venetian architecture, or the wind-blown plateaus of his adopted Provence, his poems are not more nor less than a search in the redemptive, celebrating the regeneration of language out of itself. Breaths’ Burials once again confirms the praise of Robert Duncan, who described Sobin’s work as “a poetry of great distinction, awakening the spirit to a world of errant clarifies renewed.”
- ISBN10 0811212998
- ISBN13 9780811212991
- Publish Date 17 March 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English