Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."
- ISBN10 0811217116
- ISBN13 9780811217118
- Publish Date 13 November 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Paperback
- Pages 76
- Language English