The Problem of the Many - Donnelly, Timothy

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Résumé :

• Winner of the Big Other Award for Poetry.
• Finalist for the Believer Book Award.
• Poems from Problem of the Many nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• Donnelly is a highly-respected poet known for his impressive command of sentence-craft and broad topical knowledge, garnering accolades from poets such as John Ashbery and Jorie Graham.
• Donnelly puts a lot of time into his ambitious books, so when they publish they are highly anticipated and reviewed and discussed vigorously.
• He writes lucidly on pressing topics such as global injustice and environmental devastation, contextualizing them in the day-to-day human experience.
• Poems from the book have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, the New Republic, A Public Space, the Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere
• Donnelly is well-known as a longtime poetry editor at the Boston Review (a post he left in protest over the sustained appointment of Junot Diaz), as well as the director of poetry at Columbia University.
• Donnelly's books have a proven track record in course adoptions, and this one has all the makings of a great course text.
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Biographie:
Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019)...

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CONTENTS

1. The Stars Down to Earth Prometheus Stunt All Through the War The Endless Apologies from the Ground Up Unlimited Soup and Salad Diet Mountain Dew Solvitur Ambulando Fascination Malamute Gifted The Problem of the Many

2. Arrows from the Sun Job By Night with Torch and Spear Wasted Shame Nebuchadnezzar A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches Chemical Life The Radiance of a Thousand Suns All the Shrimp I Can Eat Golden Lunch in a Town Named After a Company Slowly Poisoning Its Residents After Callimachus

3. The Earth Itself Happiness Hymn to Edmund Albius Escape into Time Traveler Jonah The Death of Print Culture The Death of the Author The Death of Truth November Paraphrase NyQuil Leviathan Mutual Life

4. Lycopodium Obscurum Lapis Lazuli Levitation Some Comforts at the Expense of Others Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake Poem on a Stair Poem Written with a Pinecone in My Hand Poem Written with an Arrowhead in My Mouth Flamin' Hot Cheetos The Lighthouse of Alexandria Roof Burning Lichen from a Bronze Age Megalith Insomnia Hymn to Life

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