Climbing Back - Poems

"Heartbreaking, overstuffed, seeping with history, lonelier than imaginable and truly in-the-face of American culture, Climbing Back's debris-field of prose poems tries with all its heart to outrun cultural paradigms and ends up refining our spiritual ignorance till it's our most gorgeous attribute."-from Jorie Graham's citation for the National Poetry Series. "Dionisio D. Martínez's Climbing Back is an epic-poetic-cinematic response to culture, a one-book shorthand to the 20th century and beyond, a series of responses to the world that are imaginative rather than reductive."-Susan Hussey, Organica

About the author

Dionisio D. Martínez is the author of Bad Alchemy and a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Summary

"[O]ne of the most important new works of poetry this year."—Kirkus Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Dionisio D. Martinez
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2001
• EAN: 9780393322620
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32262-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 162 g
• Series: National Poetry Series Books (; National Poetry Series Books (
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama